On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:01, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > > 1. I have the XFree86 4.2 source; I imagine it would be better to > install this as a .deb than from source directly. Is this correct? If > so, how go I go about it (or where would I find such info in > man/info/howto/etc?).
# /etc/apt/sources.list for X 4.2 packages deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/i386/ > 2. I'm installing the bf2.4 flavour of Debian Woody. Installing kernel > modules, the video module aty128fb (for ATI Rage 128) installed fine, > but radeonfb failed with a 'No such device' error. Yet the A31p does > have a Radeon chip. What's happening? > > Any leads wrt either of the above would be much appreciated. To use X 4.2 and DRI with my Rage 128 (A21p) I found I had to grab the CVS copy of DRI from xfree86.org and compile that into my kernel. Possibly a 2.4.19rc3 kernel has the latest X already in there. Regards, Andrew. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net.NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)916-7201 MOB: +64(21)635-694 OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Are you enrolled at http://schoolreunions.co.nz/ yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
