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2001-01-24 Thread Branden Robinson
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Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Paulo Assis
Hi,   I have a Creative Anihilator 2 Ultra, with a P3 700 / asus p3v4x. I was trying to install debian 2.2 r2 from the original distribution in this machine, everything runs ok, but XFree 3.3.6 doesn't support my video card (Geforce 2). I tried selecting NVIDIA GeFORCE 256 and DDR but they d

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:18:05PM -0200, Paulo Assis wrote: > What could be the best solution for me? What I need to download for use the > new > XFree with 2.2 r2 ? I can re-install debian 2.2 without problem. Read http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/READ.THIS and install the UNOFFICIAL potato ve

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
CB> Read http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/READ.THIS and install the CB> UNOFFICIAL potato versions of the 4.0.2 debs. I would suggest that you only install the 4.0.2 *server* until you feel comfortable with your system. There are certain issues with running the 4.0.2 libraries with a distributio

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:53:28PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I would suggest that you only install the 4.0.2 *server* until you > feel comfortable with your system. There are certain issues with > running the 4.0.2 libraries with a distribution designed for 3.3.*. I would like to know ab

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Paulo Assis
Hi! Thanks all for the real help! I'downloading all I need and will test tonight! Thanks very much! Paulo Assis - Original Message - From: "Charl P. Botha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paulo Assis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-x mailing list" Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:49 PM Su

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
CB> I would like to know about these, since I've been running 4.0.x on CB> potato for a very long time now. While every effort is made upstream to preserve binary compatibility whenever possible, there have been some issues in the past. For example, Netscape 4.* and earlier wouldn't run properly

Potato, X 4.0.2 backport and MGA

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Franklin
Greetings, I have turned to this list in mild desparation (having read Charl P. Botha's READ.THIS the requisite N+1 times :-) I have a Debian-unstable PII-350 box quite happily running 4.0.2 and Linux 2.4.0 with a Matrox G400 video card on which DRI works great. glxinfo tells me all the right thi

Upgrade from stable

2001-01-24 Thread rob21
Hi, Used apt-get install task-x-window-system heres what else i had to do. dpkg --force-overwrite -i xbase-clients* dpkg --force-overwrite -i xlibs* debconf 0.5.49 would not setup, waiting for next version. xserver-common depends on this. Cheers Rob. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http:

Re: Potato, X 4.0.2 backport and MGA

2001-01-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daniel Franklin wrote: > I have a Debian-unstable PII-350 box quite happily running 4.0.2 and Linux > 2.4.0 with a Matrox G400 video card on which DRI works great. glxinfo tells > me all the right things as far as I can tell. However, on a machine with > near-identical hardware, running potato wit

Re: Potato, X 4.0.2 backport and MGA

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Franklin
> > Daniel Franklin wrote: > > Have you read the DRI user guide and tried all the tests listed there to find > the problem? > Read it repeatedly - it didn't help. As I said, I got it working with unstable absolutely perfectly on near-identical hardware, X logs show the module to be loaded an in

Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Paulo Assis
Hi,   I have a Creative Anihilator 2 Ultra, with a P3 700 / asus p3v4x. I was trying to install debian 2.2 r2 from the original distribution in this machine, everything runs ok, but XFree 3.3.6 doesn't support my video card (Geforce 2). I tried selecting NVIDIA GeFORCE 256 and DDR but they d

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:18:05PM -0200, Paulo Assis wrote: > What could be the best solution for me? What I need to download for use the new > XFree with 2.2 r2 ? I can re-install debian 2.2 without problem. Read http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/READ.THIS and install the UNOFFICIAL potato vers

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
CB> Read http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/READ.THIS and install the CB> UNOFFICIAL potato versions of the 4.0.2 debs. I would suggest that you only install the 4.0.2 *server* until you feel comfortable with your system. There are certain issues with running the 4.0.2 libraries with a distributi

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:53:28PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I would suggest that you only install the 4.0.2 *server* until you > feel comfortable with your system. There are certain issues with > running the 4.0.2 libraries with a distribution designed for 3.3.*. I would like to know a

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Paulo Assis
Hi! Thanks all for the real help! I'downloading all I need and will test tonight! Thanks very much! Paulo Assis - Original Message - From: "Charl P. Botha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paulo Assis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-x mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

2001-01-24 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
CB> I would like to know about these, since I've been running 4.0.x on CB> potato for a very long time now. While every effort is made upstream to preserve binary compatibility whenever possible, there have been some issues in the past. For example, Netscape 4.* and earlier wouldn't run properly

Potato, X 4.0.2 backport and MGA

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Franklin
Greetings, I have turned to this list in mild desparation (having read Charl P. Botha's READ.THIS the requisite N+1 times :-) I have a Debian-unstable PII-350 box quite happily running 4.0.2 and Linux 2.4.0 with a Matrox G400 video card on which DRI works great. glxinfo tells me all the right th

Upgrade from stable

2001-01-24 Thread rob21
Hi, Used apt-get install task-x-window-system heres what else i had to do. dpkg --force-overwrite -i xbase-clients* dpkg --force-overwrite -i xlibs* debconf 0.5.49 would not setup, waiting for next version. xserver-common depends on this. Cheers Rob. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http

Re: Potato, X 4.0.2 backport and MGA

2001-01-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daniel Franklin wrote: > I have a Debian-unstable PII-350 box quite happily running 4.0.2 and Linux > 2.4.0 with a Matrox G400 video card on which DRI works great. glxinfo tells > me all the right things as far as I can tell. However, on a machine with > near-identical hardware, running potato wi

Re: Potato, X 4.0.2 backport and MGA

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Franklin
> > Daniel Franklin wrote: > > Have you read the DRI user guide and tried all the tests listed there to find > the problem? > Read it repeatedly - it didn't help. As I said, I got it working with unstable absolutely perfectly on near-identical hardware, X logs show the module to be loaded an i

Re: Potato, X 4.0.2 backport and MGA

2001-01-24 Thread Sean
I was getting the exact problem, couldn't fix it to save my life ... then I patched my kernel up to 2.4.1pre10, and it works again. Also, I'm setting agpgart and mga as modules in the kernel config ... I'm also running sid, but for this it shouldn't matter. Sean On Wednesday 24 January 2001