Re: Xfree86 and KDM from kde 3 (unofficial debs)
On Saturday 01 June 2002 03:51 pm, Gilles Grandou wrote:
> > PS: Are there any unofficial XFree 4.2 around that one can use to
> > upgrade instead of using the binary distribution without the package
> > management?
>
> If you just need XF 4.2 to support new hardware, just grap the Xxserv.tgz
> and Xmods.tgz binaries from xfree86.org, install them over your debian
> install (in /usr/X11R6), and put a few packages in hold state into dselect:
> xlibmesa-dev
> xlibmesa3
> xlibosmesa-dev
> xserver-common
> xserver-xfree86
>
> and you will be able to live for a few weeks until XF4.2 arrives in sid...
A few weeks? Thank god... I'm triple-Xing between Xf-debian 4.1, xf-from
xfree86 4.2, and AcceleratedX from Xi graphics... Yes, runlevel editing comes
in handy ;-)
(also see sig :-p )
Frank
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