xfree86 and lilo
Hi all-
I have a Sony PCG FRV-26 laptop running debian with a 2.4.22
kernel. The display card is ATI Radeon which is only supported by
versions of XFree86 4.3 and after. Currently, I have Xfree86 4.2.1 that
comes with the testing versions(i think!) and use the vesa driver for
the display. I have tried upgrading to XFree86 by downloading the 4.3
& 4.4 versions from the Xfree86 website but have been running into
problems. I can't get the gdm to run. I looked at /var/log/XFree86.0.log
--the system complains about the nvidia driver(something about a glx
extension) and that it cannot find
a usb mouse. I tried
installing the nvidia-glx package but that did'nt help. 4.2.1 runs
just fine though and i don't quite understand why 4.3 and 4.4 don't work
. I looked at a couple of backports to get 4.3 but
none that i am aware of function. Does anybody know of functioning
backports
where i
could get xfree86 4.3 and after. I know its available in the unstable
distribution but i'm a little wary of trying it unless i know it will
work.
The other question i have is about lilo. I have kernels vmlinuz2.2.20 and
vmlinuz2.4.22 currently in my /boot. I noticed that there are a few
kernel-images for 2.6.4 available now. If i install the 2.6.4-kernel-image,
is there a way of retaining the previous two versions as well?. I
would like my machine to be able to run the other two kernels even if 2.6.4
installation does'nt work. Also,
if i install a kernel-image and i find out later that there are
patches i wish to add, is there a way to do it or is compiling the
kernel the only option. I am a relative newbie to debian installation
and would like to avoid compiling a kernel if possible.
THanks,
Aswin
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