Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for > my Woody laptop.
IMHO, you'll run into too many problems if you try to go the backport route; lots of things depend on the X libraries (which, fundamentally, haven't changed in 10 years) and there have been reports of people mixing backports and running into huge dependency problems. All you really want is a newer X server. So find your favorite XFree86 mirror, download Xxserv.tgz and Xmod.tgz, unpack those in /usr/local (or a subdirectory of /usr/local/stow, if you use stow), repoint the /etc/X11/X symlink to point at /usr/local/bin/XFree86, and edit your XF86Config-4 file. You're still using the XFree86 4.1 libraries, but this shouldn't make a difference to anything (aside from maybe dpkg). -- 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]
