gustavo halperin wrote: > Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >>gustavo halperin dijo [Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +0300]: >> >> >>>>>I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and >>>>>/usr/lib are update in /usr/lib. >>>>>I currently have XFree 4.5, when the library libfontconfig1 was update >>>>>to version 2.3.2-1 was also updated >>>>>the file libfontconfig.so to the version 1.0.4 but in the XFree >>>>>(/usr/X11R6/lib/) this library still be the version 1. >>>>>The problem came we we use programs like Gimp that must at least version >>>>>1.0.2 of this library. I solve this >>>>>problem by link the libfontconfig in /usr/X11R6/lib to the newest >>>>>library in /usr/lib. That is the solution or that >>>>>is a Bug in Debian System ?? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>I assume that you're installing XFree86 4.5 by yourself, since it wasn't >>>>packaged for Debian. In that case, local installation conflicts are >>>>your problem to sort out. >>>> >>>> >>>I see, you are absolutely right. Thank you for you explanation. >>> >>> >> >>Hmh... I'll jump in - Daniel's reply was probably on the wrong tone, >>but the answer is perfectly right - When you choose a distribution >>(like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE or any other), you choose the >>carefully crafted work of integration of thousands of packages. Of >>course, for most packages you can decide to roll your own and live >>with it - But in the case of X... Well, it's one of the packages in >>which most other packages depend, and it's one of the least trivial >>ones to get right. You can be almost sure that many things will break >>if you prefer to use an X server not provided by Debian - So the >>answer is right, why would you want to use XFree now? >> >>Greetings, >> >> >> > I don't understand your question: "why would you want to use XFree > now?", what do you mean. > Do you mean why not use X.org ??. > Any way the current XFree version in Debian stable is 4.3, this version > is to old for me. I have a > Toshiba laptop Portege R100 with trident *Cyber Blade XP* , with XFree > 4.3 I can use only vesa, > I really need to update X-server. Even now I'm thinking to update from > Xfree 4.5 to X.org last > revision (X11R7.0 <http://wiki.x.org/wiki/X11R70Release>) that looks > like have fully support for my driver, see link > <http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/trident.4.html>. > Do you have any recommendation how to do it in the best way for my > Debian system ?? >
Backports: http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/ Or, if you feel comfortable doing it, then upgrade to Etch or Sid. Besides, is this not a bit OT for -devel? Perhaps this discussion is more suited to -user. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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