On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:14:46PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:24:01AM -0600, Remy Indebetouw wrote: > > I've got a potato/woody pinned hybrid, and my main reluctance to just > > dist-upgrade is related to this: > > > > I appear to have both Xfree 3 and 4 (see apt-cache output below; I > > didn't purposefully do this, parts of X4 came along with libc6-dev, I > > think. BTW thanks to those who convinced me that apt would not lead me > > astray in a hydrid system. deb packaging rocks once again). > > In woody, both XFree86 3 & 4 are include since some hardware supported > in 3 is not supported in 4. > > > > I used a patched Mach64 server on my Dell I7K laptop (ATI Rage), so what > > I'd like to do is configure and try X4 without trashing X3, or at least > > know how to get back, so > > -how do i tell if I have all parts of X4 (I thought this was > > x-window-system) > > -how would i get back if it doesn't work? restore the > > old /etc/X11/XF86Config and what else?? > > -once X4 works can i just purge task-x-window-system to wipe X3?
If you're at all interested in running 3D programs, I would strongly suggest you stick with X3. Mach64 3d acceleration only works with X3 at the moment (see the utah-glx package), although work is being done to get it working on X4 as well (as part of the DRI project). I downgraded from X4 to X3 yesterday just to get 3D acceleration (I have a Mach64 on a laptop as well), and I'm very happy with the result. > > > Config file for X3 is XF86Config and for X4 it's XF86Config-4. > > To try X4: > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > /etc/X11/XF86Config will still be there unchanged. > > If you don't like the results, I think all you need to do is change > symlink /etc/X11/X to point to old X3 server you want to use and > restart X. Or just rerun dpkg-reconfigure [xserver-you-want-to-use]. While this is true for the X server, there seem to be larger conflicts between the different GL libraries. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz2 #1 Wed Feb 27 17:41:43 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs
