Hi Alan,

> Judging from this cut-and-past, the CVS server never heard of
> vm-display-fbdev . 
> 
> atg at AlonzoGC:/home/atg/source/squeak> cvs update
> ? platforms/unix/vm-display-fbdev

Like I said: it wouldn't surprise me if their cvs pserver is broken to the
same degree.

OTOH, if you got the vm-display-fbdev dir from the archive (not from the
repository) then there's no CVS subdir in it -- and cvs is entirely
reasonable in being confused about it.

Try moving it aside and then doing this from the root of your SF tree:

    cvs -z3 co platforms/unix/vm-display-fbdev

If that works, then you might want to peruse one or both of these:

    http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_toc.html
    http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html

> And, ofcourse, when I try to build it, it does this: (Yes I know my
> build environment is horribly shot but I don't think that caused
> this...) 

You need the changeset that I posted in the mesasge to which Tim just
referred.

Cheers,
Ian