Re: Upgrading XFree86
*- On 9 Sep, Greg Vence wrote about "Re: Upgrading XFree86"
> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 08:49:29 -0500, David Kanter wrote:
>> > I need some advice on how to upgrade the XFree86 files that came with
>> > Slink. My problem is that I have a card (STB nVIDIA TNT, 16 Mb of RAM) not
>> > listed in the stable version, but listed in the unstable version of X.
>>
>> At http://netgod.net/x/ you can find newer X packages compiled for use on
>> "stable".
>>
> However, I've got a Viper 770 (TNT2 16 MB) and that doesn't show up
> until 3.3.4 those files are at http://www.debian.org/~branden/
> As of 48 hrs ago, it had dependency problems on the fonts. I may try
> again this weekend if there's been a fix. Otherwise, I'm considering
> the Potato option...
>
You can just manually install the xserver-common and xserver-svga from
Branden's site with 'dpkg -i xserver-*'. The server will work with the
3.3.3.1 libs and other components.
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Brian
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