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Re: Debian2.2 and XFree86 version 4



Hi Andreas

I had the same problem so i did what you told someone else... but it removes
some packages now i cannot make "xf86config" it says command not found... do
i have to do something?

I have a i810 board, debian potato 2.2 , newly installed xfree86  4.0.3

what can i do???



> There are packages for XFree86 4.0.3 under potato. Just add the
> following lines to your sources.list:
>
> # Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 - XFree86 Version 4.0.3
> deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/all/
> deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/i386/
>
> Just run apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade your
> installation of version 3.x. You can also use dselect with apt as
> access method to install it, if you didn't have an existing XFree86
> installation. You have to configure XFree86 Version 4.0.3 with
> xf86config (in text mode) because there is no graphical setup program
> like in version 3.x.
>
> For me there were no problems with the upgrade (I used apt-get to
> upgrade an existing installation). But I think at the moment not every
> graphic card that is supported in version 3.x is already supported in
> version 4.0.3. So better check if your card is supported on
> http://www.xfree86.org before making the upgrade.
>
> Bye
> Andreas
>
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