On Thursday 22 September 2005 05:41 am, Bob Alexander wrote: > I have a Thinkpad T40 (ATI Rad M9 1400x1050 panel) Debian system > tracking sid. > > AFAIK I should be running Debian's version of XFree rel 4.3.0. > > dpkg -l |grep xfree > > xfree86-common 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window > System infrastructure transitional package > ii xserver-xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 the > XFree86 X s erver > > I would like to completely substitute the current X system to the latest > Xorg versions. > > What would be the reccomended way of doing so ? > > Thank you very much. > Bob > > PS: I am still stuck in the orrible situation of having a beautiful > desktop but of not being able to show it off on an external projector :( :( > > Talking on "Open Source and IT Security" in a few days and in this > moment will be forced to use Winblows to drive the projector :( :( :( > What a shame !
Bob, I have the following in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/ experimental main non-free contrib #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/ experimental main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.debian.org/ unstable main non-free contrib #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.debian.org/ testing main non-free contrib #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main #deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian sid main non-free # NDISWRAPPERS #deb http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/debian ./ #deb http://rigtorp.se/debian/ unstable/ #deb http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/ ./ #deb-src http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/ ./ #deb http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian-fglrx-xfree86/ ./ deb http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian-fglrx-xorg/ ./ #deb http://www.kalyxo.org/debian/ unstable main #deb http://cp.yi.org/apt/hibernate ./ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: xsupplicant Pin: version 1.0-1 Pin-Priority: 400 I recently did a netinstall of sarge on my laptop due to a failed hard drive. I first installed sarge's kde and xfree86. I then edited my apt/sources.list and apt/preferences to put in the above and did an apt-get update. I saw that testing still had 3.3.2 for kde but had upgraded to xorg. I then used aptitude from the command line and selectively looked at what would be upgraded when I did an aptitude upgrade. I then manually added the packages to my aptitude install (various xorg packages) command line and proceeded to upgrade my X11 stuff to xorg version. Once I did my upgrade to xorg, I then did an install of kde 3.4.2 using command line of aptitude. I did aptitude install -t unstable kde and it pulled in all the necessary kde packages. In some cases packages that hadn't made the transition to the new c++ abi would be removed such as koffice. Not a big deal to me at the moment, since I had discovered that openoffice.org2 was available in unstable and experimental. BTW, openoffice.org2 has a nice kde integration. To install openoffice.org2 with nice kde integration, I did aptitude install openoffice.org2-kde and it pulled in all the relevant packages including java stuff needed to work. I have found that openoffice.org2 starts up much faster than version 1. If you have version 1 installed, version 2 will remove it -- so beware. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
