On Nov 28, 2003, at 2:22 PM, Justin Lott wrote:
On Nov 28, 2003, at 1:06 PM, Barry C.Hawkins wrote:
In light of the fact that I seem to have the North Korea of video
cards, what would you (and anyone else) recommend in terms of trying
to get XFree86 working on a PowerBook G4 17" 1GHz? eBay and another
machine? Man, I hope not. Thanks in advance for your assistance. I
am reading up on X Windows to try and learn more so that I won't be
such a drain to the list.\
Barry,
I have a 12" Powerbook G4 w/the GeForce FX Go5200 chipset. I was able
to get X Windows up and running by adding the following to
/etc/apt/sources.list (this is from memory so YMMV :)
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ ../experimental main
That will allow you to access the experimental tree. Then just do this:
apt-get -t experimental install x-window-system (and all the other
pieces of xfree86 4.3.x)
Thats about it... Hopefully that helps you.
- justin
Justin,
Thanks much. I will try my hand at this when I get home. I am not
able to connect my laptop to the network at the office.
Regards,
--
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
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