Re: Installing XFree86 v3.3.6 instead of v4.0

2003-07-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Barnaby Waters wrote: > I installed debian-30r1 on a fairly old PC with a S3Trio64V2/GX video > chip. > > X applications wil not run. I think that XFree86 version v4.0 no longer > not support the S£Trio64V2/GX chip and I need to install XFree86 v3.3.6. That is correct for XFree 4.0 and 4.

RE: Installing XFree86 Solved, On to Gnome - Solved?

2001-11-03 Thread John Purser
ECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 17:25 To: 'Aniartia'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Installing XFree86 Solved, On to Gnome Thanks to Ken Meade I got X installed by running: apt-get install x-window-system-core xserver-xfree86 and it worked fine. Still working on Gn

RE: Installing XFree86 Solved, On to Gnome

2001-11-03 Thread John Purser
Purser -Original Message- From: Aniartia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 16:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 On Saturday 03 November 2001 17:24, John Purser wrote: > Would someone either post a summary of

Re: Installing XFree86

2001-11-03 Thread Aniartia
On Saturday 03 November 2001 17:24, John Purser wrote: > Would someone either post a summary of the steps involved or point me to a > HOW-TO that shows how to install this the debian way? I got so confused I edited my sources.lst then # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade # apt-get install apt debcon

Re: Installing XFree86

2001-11-03 Thread Ken Mead
ohn Purser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ken Mead'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 1:48 PM Subject: RE: Installing XFree86 > Many thanks! It was pretty easy thanks you your instructions. > > Two new questions. I want to install Gn

Re: Installing XFree86

2001-11-03 Thread Akintayo Holder
John Purser wrote: Hello, I've got a basic Debian Woody installation on a Pentium III 550 with 196 megs of ram. I'd like to install the X windowing system. I've looked over the packages available with names like x-window-system and x-window-system-core, and xfree86-common and I have no idea w

Re: Installing XFree86

2001-11-03 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> Hello, > > I've got a basic Debian Woody installation on a Pentium III 550 with 196 > megs of ram. I'd like to install the X windowing system. I've looked over > the packages available with names like x-window-system and > x-window-system-core, and xfree86-common and I have no idea where to st

Re: Installing XFree86

2001-11-03 Thread David P James
On Saturday 03 November 2001 12:24, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a basic Debian Woody installation on a Pentium III 550 with 196 > megs of ram. I'd like to install the X windowing system. I've looked over > the packages available with names like x-window-system and > x-window-system-c

Re: Installing xfree86 3.3.3.5

1999-09-05 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 03:18:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to install xfree86 3.3.3.5 (so that I can get a Nvidia RIVA TNT-2 > vid card working.. if there is another way to do this without getting > xfree86, i'd love to know.. ) anyhow, when i tried installing 3.3.3.5 > usi

Re: Installing Xfree86 in debian Linux

1998-10-01 Thread Peter Makholm
"BALAJI VENKAT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hence i get a feeling that i am loading a wrong binary of xfree86 ( ie i > dont know if i have to take a.out binary or whatever ). Where did you find the binaries? Was it the official debianpackages from ftp.debian.org (or a mirror thereoff), or was