Re: XFree86 4.0.3 and Voodoo

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Russell Hires wrote:

> I've searched and searched and searched the list archives about the
> latest version of XFree86 and my lovely Voodoo card...and found nothing
> that seems to help.
> 
> I went to Branden's page and changed my sources.list (which BTW had a
> funny problem of not being editable, though I did work around it) to
> include his debs. But now apt-get won't give me everything, saying
> several packages have been "held back" because the version of libc6 is
> needs to different than what it is.

Branden's debs need at least testing, I recommend upgrading to that or even
unstable.


This HOWTO I found with Google seems to have helped a friend get his Voodoo
going:

http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/linuxppc-tdfx.php3


Good luck!


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