Re: How stable is SiD ?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Johan Kullstam wrote:
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian
> > > Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken
> > > dependencies etc.
> >
> > If you have to ask, sid is not stable enough for you.
>
> Perhaps his video card isn't supported with the woody shipped xfree86?
> That's why I went straight for sid last August.  (ATI Radeon 8500
> needs 4.2.1.)  At work I just got some crap corporate box with i845g
> graphics.  I need xfree86 4.3.  Please advise.

There's some useful posts on installing X 4.3 in the archives in the
last couple of weeks.