Re: XFree 3.6 and PReP
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:08:50AM +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for my s3 video card I need XFree 3.6 because XFree >= 4 hasn't support for
> it.
>
> Ok, so I did this under Debian Woody (computer: Motorala Powerstack 300 MHz):
> ppc:~# apt-get -s install xserver-s3
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package xserver-s3 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> However the following packages replace it:
> xserver-common
> E: Package xserver-s3 has no installation candidate
>
> Well, ...
>
> Is there no ppc binary package of xserver-s3 available? What is the reason of
> missing XFree 3.6 support under PPC?
>
> Or is just my configuration broken?
>
> What is the Debian-way to get XFree 3.6 on this Box?
I don't _believe_ that S3/XFree worked on PPC ever. What I would
suggest is that you pick up a PCI-based Matrox Millenium 1 (_some_
versions of PPCBUG support this, I believe), run a framebuffer on that,
and run an Xserver over that.
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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