On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 03:12:08PM -0500, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > Thanks very much. I was actually kind of hoping for an RTFM answer too so > that I could find this stuff out in the future without posting > questions to the list that I could probably find out by reading some > manual. the XFree howto doesn't have specific info on 3.3.2 vs 3.3.3, > and I find the xfree86.org site difficult to navigate. > > the /etc/X11/Xserver tip is exactly what I needed, thanks a million!
No problem. I was never able to find the XFree86 3.3.2 vs 3.3.3 stuff spelled out clearly either. In fact, most of the info I got on came from this very list. <g> > I've banged my head on alien"ing" RPMs before, do Xservers typically alien > well? In this case they will. The tarballs from the XFree86 ftp-site each contain only a single file - the precompiled binary itself. Running alien on it will only extract it from the original archive and repack it into a debfile. I'd be a little more reluctant to convert it had it originally been a rpm archive, as I've had much less luck with those... generally because of the differing file-structure layout between Debian and Red Hat. Still, if there's only one file in the archive... > When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work > with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't > tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in > /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of > experimental packages?) It's working without a hint of trouble on my system. I'm currently running the most current X packages out of slink (3.3.2.3), plus the pre-compiled 3DLabs server (glibc2, 3.3.3.1) from the XFree86 site. Now whether it's by chance or design that the two versions co-exist peacefully, I really can't say... I heard on debian-devel a week or so ago that someone had some experimental 3.3.3.1 packages available, though I don't have the address handy. A quick search through the mailing-list archives ought to turn it up, tho.
