From: Gerhard Thimm (gthimm@zbw.ch)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 11:56:20 CET
Kerstin & Peter Karp schrieb:
>
> Thanks Michele and Denis :-)
>
> Denis wrote:
> > > You should download SVGA.tgz in the MISC area of muLinux
> > homepage.
> > > This is the easiest way to configure your display to higher
> > > resolutions.
> I've done that, but can't extract the tgz file. I've copied the file
> SVGA.tgz
> (note that the file I've downloaded has capital letters (under
> MS-DOS), but in MuLinux it appears with small letters!!! So I renamed
> svga.tgz to SVGA.tgz under linux...) in the root directory /
>
> In the readme of SVGA.tgz it says:
>
> cd /
> cat SVGA.tgz | bzip2 -dc SVGA.tgz | tar -xvf-
The last dash ------------------------------------^
must be separated by a comma!
-xvf are the options eXtract Verbose fromFile
the last dash means the File. in this case the "standard input", which
is supplied by the pipe-output.
Hope this helps, Gerhard
>
> I've done that, but got an error message:
>
> -xvf- not found
> bzip2: Input filename SVGA.tgz doesn't end in '.bz2', skipping
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> I've also tried to extract the file with the command
>
> gzip -x SVGA.tgz
>
> Then the file was changed to the name SVGA.tar. I couldn't got any
> further.
>
> > > Then you should edit the XF86Config.in file (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11)
> I hope I'll come to that step soon :-)
>
> Michele wrote:
> > The step relative to editing the XF86Config.in is not out-of-date,
> > because in recent muLinux release, the XF86Config.in is able to
> > deal with both servers. VGA16 and SVGA.
> I'm sorry. I don't understand what you mean here. Which step exactly
> do you mean is *not* out of date. And when it's *not* out-of-date why
> do you mention it? What would have been changed?
>
> Thanks for all your help!
> Peter
>
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