[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a > model that came out early last year). It's got a Trident CyberBlade > XP Ail graphics adapter. > > I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the > following conclusions: > > * XFree86 (hereafter referred to as simply X) 4.2.0 appears to > support the > card, but only in framebuffer mode. > * I also hear there is support in non-framebuffer mode, but it's > unaccellerated. > * Looking at the XFree86 site, they have just added accelerated support to > the X 4.2.99 snapshot. ... > I can install the X 4.2.99 snapshot. My question is, what about > Debian's dependencies? I plan on installing a large amount of X > stuff (KDE, OpenOffice, etc.), and I know that those packages are > going to have dependencies on X software. However, since I'm not > installing from .deb files, how do I go about doing this?
So there are several parts to X. There's the X server, which actually talks to the hardware. Then programs like xterm and your window manager and what not are X clients, and usually use a library called Xlib to talk to the server. The simple fact here is that the X protocol hasn't changed in *years*. Which means that you can do something like install the snapshot version of X in /usr/local, and run the server out of there. All of your X-using programs will use the (Debian-provided) Xlib from XFree86 3.3.6, but that's really just fine, and won't affect anything. The main thing to do, then, is to repoint the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver to point to /usr/local/bin/XFree86 or wherever. (Don't know if they do this for pre-releases, but XFree86 used to put out binary tarballs of chunks of the system, so you could get a tarball of just the X server; this was convenient when I actually wanted to put X on my potato machine, but for lack of hardware support in XFree86 3.3.6.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
