On Saturday 01 June 2002 03:51 pm, Gilles Grandou wrote: > > PS: Are there any unofficial XFree 4.2 around that one can use to > > upgrade instead of using the binary distribution without the package > > management? > > If you just need XF 4.2 to support new hardware, just grap the Xxserv.tgz > and Xmods.tgz binaries from xfree86.org, install them over your debian > install (in /usr/X11R6), and put a few packages in hold state into dselect: > xlibmesa-dev > xlibmesa3 > xlibosmesa-dev > xserver-common > xserver-xfree86 > > and you will be able to live for a few weeks until XF4.2 arrives in sid...
A few weeks? Thank god... I'm triple-Xing between Xf-debian 4.1, xf-from xfree86 4.2, and AcceleratedX from Xi graphics... Yes, runlevel editing comes in handy ;-) (also see sig :-p ) Frank -- homepage: www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9917684 jabber (=IM): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Driver hacker? Do me a favor and help the dri guys http://dri.sourceforge.net to code an accelerated driver for the ati radeon 8500. Save the world from proprietary drivers ;-) Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
