Re: Gnome2.2 backport and XFree86 4.3 on woody [was R:e XFree86 4.3 in Woody]
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:58:40PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 23:48, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Would it not be better to rebuild the gnome 2.2 backport together with a
> > backport of branden's unofficial 4.3 packages ? I seriously doubt that
> > it is wise to continue to stay with an XFree release that is more than
> > 18 month old, and doesn't support lots of modern graphic cards. Also,
> > gnome 2.2 was released, if i am not wrong, on almost the same timeframe
> > as X 4.3 was released, so i seriously doubt that it is incompatible, or
> > at least that early incompatibilities have not been fixed since.
> >
> > So either it should run with 4.1 as present in woody, or go all the way
> > and work with a backport of the 4.3 packages.
>
> X 4.3 isn't a panacea:
> http://bugs.debian.org/200587
> I'm running X 4.3 and totem still doesn't work. I need to either
Totem has never worked as far as i can remember, but xine works fine.
But then, buggy applications are no reason for saying X 4.3 is no good.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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