Re: XFree86 3.3.1 available as *.deb
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had to buy a Matrox Millennium II because the I was out of my
> dealers shelf. I know that there is rudimental (Alpha) support
> of this card in XFree86 3.3.1.
>
> Has anybody tried to put it into a Debian Package?
>
> I installed a new Debian-unstable System from scratch (with packages
> from ftp.de.debian.org) with the latest timestamp today morning.
>
> Now I want to know how to cope with xbase xserver and friends.
>
> If I use the sources from xfree.org how to tell the other packages
> like fvwm2 etc that xbase is installed and not to bother about
> dependencies?
In cases like this, you can install the X server from 3.3.1 on top of the
3.3 distribution provided by Debian. Just install whatever you need,
including an X server (vga16 would be nice, so you can run XF86Setup) and
copy the X server you like from xfree.org. This trick has worked for me
when 3.1.2 didn't have support for my video card and the latest beta did.
Remco
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