Hendrik Boom wrote:
Probably not. If you are planning to upgrade to x.org anyway, then you need not worry about configuring xfree86 properly.I have a machine with two sarges on it -- one was installed as a sarge system, the other as a woody, and upgraded. But xfree did not survive the upgrade -- and when I boot that one, X does not come up (everything fin on the other one, though). Now my plan is to take the one I upgraded from woody (the one where X does not work) and further upgrade it to etch. (a) Should I bother getting X to work before upgrading to etch -- after all, isn't xfree being replaced by x.org?
However if you were not able to get it up and running with xorg then there is a problem. You have to downgrade the system to xfree86 and try your stunts with that.
If I were you, I would first post information about the video card and see if someone else is already able to run x.org with it. If the answer is yes, then just upgrade to xorg and configure X there. If the answer is no, then it is probably good idea to get xfree86 up and running first.
just my 2 cents raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/