Re: Flashing display -- Complete Reply

["Doc - KD4E" <e.net@verizon.net>]

> But why hurry it?  The debian dependency system lets you
> upgrade the bits and pieces you want and leave the ones that
> work alone.  Upgrade the packages you need.
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get --simulate install pkg1 pkg2 pkg3
> .. and then if it looks OK ...
>   apt-get install pkg1 pkg2 pkg3
> (I'm actually to lazy to do that exactly, so I have a little
> script that does it for me...
>   dinst pkg1 pkg2 pkg3
>   dinst --doit)

I'd already there -- spent months trying the piecemeal approach
and it just wasn't working out.

>   dpkg -l '*xserver*'

ii  xserver-8514  3.3.6-39
ii  xserver-agx  3.3.6-39
ii  xserver-common  4.1.0-9
ii  xserver-common  3.3.6-39
ii  xserver-mach32  3.3.6-39
un  xserver-mach64  (none)
ii  xserver-mach8  3.3.6-39
ii  xserver-p9000  3.3.6-39
ii  xserver-s3  3.3.6-39
un  xserver-s3v  (none)
ii  xserver-svga  3.3.6-39
un  xserver-tga  (none)
un  xserver-vga16  (none)
un  xserver-w32  (none)
ii  xserver-xfree8  4.1.0-9

Thanks!  doc