Re: getting XFree (potato!!) to work with geforce 2 MX (<- !!)

[Manuel Reiter <reiter@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de>]

Hi,

> > You could go to
> >
> > 	http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/cpbotha
> >
> > where you will find .deb packages of XFree86 4.0.1 compiled for potato. 
> 
> thanx, but i can't burn any cdrom.

You shouldn't have to.

> any ideas? maybe a neat entry to sources.list i could use to get the files 
> automatically?? (i don't care if it would take some hours of downloading).

You could try

	deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian potato cpbotha

If that doesn't work, download the 'dists' directory with all
subdirectories to /some/path and try

        deb file:/some/path potato cpbotha

> the main problem was, that xserver-common depends on xfree86 common, but on 
> the server is no xfree86-common and xlibs conflicts with xlibg6 but if i 
> remove xlibg6, almost the whole system wants to be removed! argh...

As for the xlib6g problem, 'libxaw6' from the above server replaces
xlib6g. I can't remember having any problem with dependencies on
xfree86-common, but I can't check now. If you can't get it to work with
these tips, let me know and I will try to reinstall X 4.0.1 at home.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

  Manuel