Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>> --- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody.
>>>
>>
>> There is your problem.  The Radeon 9000 Pro is too new for that
>> X-server.  It is even too new for the version of the X-server in
>> Sarge.  You can either
>> get a Woody backport of XFree86 4.3 (from apt-get.org) or go to
>> unstable.
>>
>> However, unstable hasn't quite received the 4.3 version of XFree86
>> and the 3D is broken for Radeon cards.
>
> Hi Roberto,
>
> Thanks, what took you so long?  ;)  I'm not going to unstable.  I've
> also never played with backports, bet it's a can of worms.  :)  A
> backport is a later package version with dependencies that let it
> install on older distributions, right?
>
> Anyway, I'm gonna get me some of this...
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/$(ARCH)/ ./
>
> Antony

Maybe not.  The site is NLA.  I've emailed Daniel Stone to see where his
Woody backports live these days, meanwhile if anyone knows where they are,
please feel free to share!

Antony



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