Re: Upgrading XFree86

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Kugler
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 05:48, Brian C wrote: > on a lot of the packages that I thought would adequately upgrade me to > Xfree86, but I'm getting the impression that I have to recompile the > kernel to include the mga module or something from the error message I'm > getting when X won't start. So

Re: Upgrading XFree86

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Kugler
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 05:48, Brian C wrote: > on a lot of the packages that I thought would adequately upgrade me to > Xfree86, but I'm getting the impression that I have to recompile the > kernel to include the mga module or something from the error message I'm > getting when X won't start. So

Re: Upgrading XFree86

2003-08-24 Thread William Morris
Hi Brian So two questions, 1) Anyone installed a Matrox 550 card under Debian? What'd you do? and 2) What are all the packages I would need to upgrade to have all the X stuff at the testing level? Thanks for any help. I can't help with apt stuff as I'm running 'testing'. I did recompile the ker

Re: Upgrading XFree86

2003-08-24 Thread William Morris
Hi Brian So two questions, 1) Anyone installed a Matrox 550 card under Debian? What'd you do? and 2) What are all the packages I would need to upgrade to have all the X stuff at the testing level? Thanks for any help. I can't help with apt stuff as I'm running 'testing'. I did recompile the

Upgrading XFree86

2003-08-24 Thread Brian C
Hi, I've installed Woody on a new box. It has a Matrox 550 video card in it, which is only supported under more recent versions of XFree86. I intend to use this box as a server though and would like to keep it as close to the stable flavor as possible. So, I've learned about apt-pinning and be

Upgrading XFree86

2003-08-23 Thread Brian C
Hi, I've installed Woody on a new box. It has a Matrox 550 video card in it, which is only supported under more recent versions of XFree86. I intend to use this box as a server though and would like to keep it as close to the stable flavor as possible. So, I've learned about apt-pinning and b