[wellylug] Debian and latest XFree86

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <3EDF99B2.9817.D50CB2 at localhost>, pmilne at paradise.net.nz writes:
>Is there an easy way of 'upgrading' Xfree86 to 4.2 in Debian 3.0r1 
>(Woody) without having to upgrade to 3.1 testing version (Sarge)?  
>Woody does not support video 'card' in my laptop (needs at least 
>XFree86 4.1.99), whereas latest Mandrake loads just fine.

I'm running a back port of Xfree86 4.2 built by a friend of mine (Martin
Lucina) on my Debian Linux 3.0 (Woody) laptop.  It's currently available
via apt at:

deb http://debian.naos.co.nz/ woody xfree86

and when I installed it IIRC I just went through and reinstalled the X
packages and otherwise it was fine.

It won't be there forever, but if you want to use it to upgrade your
laptop feel free.  (In particular if it generates a lot of downloads
I'll probably have to remove it or restrict access to it, lest I exceed
my bandwidth quota by too much.)

What _I'd_ like is a backport of Xfree86 4.3, which has much better
support for the i830M chipset which is in my laptop.  My friend has
tried building this, but found that it relied on too many things in
unstable to be easy to build separately (and that unstable has moved on
quite a lot since Woody was released).

Ewen