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Re: Question for Debian XFCom_Rage128 HOWTO



On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 04:50:13PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> >>>>> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
> 
>     > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] On Thu, Feb
>     > 10, 2000 at 12:44:56PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
>     >> I am preparing a short HOWTO on installing the
>     >> XFCom_Rage128 xserver on a Debian (slink) system.
> 
>     > Is there really a point to this?
> 
>     > Potato is about to release with XFree86 3.3.6, which
>     > contains support for the Rage 128 chipset.
> 
> I am aware of that.  The rage package is the obvious solution for
> anyone running unstable or frozen, but (correct me if I'm wrong!)
> debs of 3.3.6 are not available for the current stable/slink
> version.  If they are, that would simplify the howto greatly!

I believe you're correct.

The point branden is making is that potato is soon to be stable.

Jules

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