Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x
Jonathan D Proulx <jon@ai.mit.edu> writes:
JDP> I know this has come up before, but my searching skills aren't up to
JDP> the task of finding it in the archives apparently...
JDP>
JDP> I have about 20 workstations on the way for incoming students and They
JDP> all have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this requires XFree86 4.x), what's the
JDP> best way tho keep these machines running stable but also grabbing
JDP> XFree86 4.x? I seem to recall someone building stable .deb's for this
JDP> a long time ago, but can't seem to find where they are.
When I did this, I went to ftp.xfree86.org and found a tarball
containing just the server binary and things you absolutely needed to
run the X server, and installed this under /usr/local. Worked like a
charm. (Though at this point, the machine is sitting headless as a
server box. *nostalgic sigh* Five years ago, 100 MHz Pentia were
decent machines...)
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