xfree86 woes. Help please
Helphelp,
I am trying to install 3dfx Xfree86 drivers for my voodoo3 video card. I am
running into a conflict between these drivers and the debian drivers.I am
using Debian that Oreilly and Var are selling. 2.1.? Any ideas how
to get around this. Details are below:
I have successfully downloaded and installed Xfree86 3.3.5 from debian.org.
Also, I have installed the RedHat package manager that works with alien. Now,
I have 5 rpm packages of the 3dfx Xfree86 drivers to install. Soooo:
alien -i Xfree86~1.rpm (to take care of the first package)
Installation starts but ends with following messages:
Unpacking xfree86-SVGA (from Xfree86-svga-3.3.35-1.6_i386.deb)
dpkg: error processing xfree86-svga_3.3.5-1.6.i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA', which is also in
package xserver-svga
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe)
Errors were encountered whil processing:
xfree86-svga_3.3.5-1.6_i386.deb
alien: error running: dpkg --no-force-overwrite -i xfree86
(and more stuff, but I got called away and didn't finish writing it all).
Note: I had two install two Glide packages, also .rpm, that I used
alien -i to install and it all went well and slick.
Adios, Steve
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