Incoming from Doyle, Patrick: > I found this thread in the archives, and I am experiencing the same behavior > (on my Compaq Presario 2100 with a stock "woody" bf2.4 install). I have > also seen that I cannot run KDE -- it simply crashes during startup. From > everything I've read, I probably need to upgrade to Xfree86 4.3 in order to > make these problems go away, but I have some questions first. > > 1) In the short term (I need to get work done _today_ and can't spend the > day upgrading X), how can I turn off the screensaver? I don't see any menu
I don't use kde, but doesn't a right-click on the background bring up anything useful? > 2) In the long term, is there a .deb package I can grab to perform the > upgrade to 4.3 more easily than downloading 12 different files from > xfree86.org? Have you looked in backports? I see 4.2 in http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/xfree86/binary-i386/ -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -
