Re: Xfree downgrade
It's a Samsung SENS800 laptop, with a 1 MB Cirrus Logic 7543 PCI graphics
card.
I noticed the packages are under 'stable', is there any way I can use
apt-get to grab them without changing my sources.list?
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam C Powell IV" <hazelsct@mit.edu>
To: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: Xfree downgrade
> Daniel Frencham wrote:
>
> > I'm using Woody on my laptop, and have been trying to get X to work.
> >
> >
> >
> > I just found out that my video card isn't supported under Xfree 4.x
> > only xfree 3.x.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there anyway I can install xfree86 3.3.1 under woody ?
> >
> There should be v3 X servers, such as xserver-svga. Can you get and
> install that, or whatever server is approapriate for your laptop? (What
> kind of laptop, what kind of video?)
>
> The short answer is yes, XFree 3.x servers are available under
> woody/sid, for just this reason.
>
> Zeen,
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