* Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [260201 15:27]:
> I am trying to upgarde a fairly important production machien from
> stabel to testing. I built a test machine at home this weekend and
> tried this, and all went well.
I wish I could have said "all went well" with my recent upgrade from Stable to
Testing!
> However that machine had a smallish disk, and I did not install all the
> packages, big mistake!
>
> During the configuration step, I was prompted to choose, what I vaugely
> remember as a X server, but after I chose that later I swa some
> messages that made me think I might have picked XFree86 4, which was
> not what I intended to do!
>
> In any case, X was working great on this machine, untill I did this, so
> what's the best way to figure out what I have dome to create this mess,
> and get back to my working config?
Well...I did a "dist-upgrade" to Testing yesterday (and managed to straighten
out the mess after about 10 hours or so). These may be overkill, but their
the only suggestions I have based upon my own experience:
1. Roll your own kernel from the 2.4.1 kernel sources.
2. Be sure your modutils is upgraded.
3. purge your old xserver (dpkg --purge xserver_yourXServer)
4. Install task-x-window-system
I also had to install libglide3* for my Voodoo3 3000 and a few
other X related packages that were held back on my system for
some reason (task-x-window-system-core and a number of font packages)
5. Create an XF86Config-4 file using xf86config (I've heard "dexter" is
really good, but I have no idea where to find that. Could it be
dexconf?)
6. If you use gnome, install gdm (task-x-window-system removes gdm in
favor of 'xdm')
Anyways...there's a few places to start.
robert jacobs
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