Re: Xfree

["Peter Watkinson" <peter.watkinson1@ntlworld.com>]

Hi Chaps,

Thanks for that. Maybe I'll use something else in the mean time.

The system has a UP1500 motherboard. I purchased off of ebay. I had to sell
my SX based system to afford it. Seems pretty speedy so far.

I have another Alpha with Debian installed. I can't remember whether I used
XF86Config to configure the graphics card. The problem is I'm using a TFT
monitor and I'm wary about which settings I use. I was sure there was
another method similar to the X config used in the original install. I have
some S3 PCI cards maybe I'll use one of those to get refamiliar with the
process.

The radeon card wasn't to expensive. I had to buy the memory from crucial
and whilst ebay is good for somethings the convoluted process to buy
something like a Voodoo 2000 which is what I would have bought otherwise
gets to you after a while.

Aha wait a minute if I remember correctly isn't there a way to re go through
the install process which means you can re do the X configure. If that's so
could anyone remind me, I've got to get some kip now got to go to work again
tomorow.

Thanks for any help.

Kind regards,

Peter Watkinson
peter.watkinson1@ntlworld.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam C Powell IV" <hazelsct@mit.edu>
To: "debian alpha" <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Xfree


> Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>
> >>The graphics card is a Crucial ATI Radeon 8500 AGP card.
> >>
> >>
> >Not supported by woody, I assume.
> >
> Right, my 8500 on Athlon requires X 4.2.1.  The apt line for i386 is:
>
>     deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386/ ./
>
> and you should be able to get sources from somewhere in there that will
> build on alpha.
>
> [To do that, once you have the orig.tar.gz, the .diff.gz and the .dsc,
> and have installed the fakeroot package:
>
>     dpkg-source -x file.dsc [e.g. foo_1.2.3-4.dsc]
>     cd dir-version [e.g. foo-1.2.3]
>     dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
>
> I prefer this to "fakeroot debian/rules binary" because it tests for
> build-depends and lets you know what's missing.]
>
> Zeen,
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