[wellylug] Debian and latest XFree86

Richard Hector rhector at paradise.net.nz
Thu Jun 5 20:46:28 NZST 2003


On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:25:09PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> 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.)

There's also Adrian Bunk's largish repository of backports here:

http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/

> 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).

There are references here:

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/category1.html

I haven't tried them though.

Richard




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