On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:53:09PM -0500, Raphael Bustin wrote:
> Hello All. Debian Newbie here.
Welcome.
> I'm curious why there's no deb package for the latest (4.10 ?) version of
> XFree86. Or at least, I haven't found it on debian.org.
There are. Just not for Potato. Potato is the "stable" distribution, and
XFree86 4.10 post-dates the release of Potato. The only changes that take
place in the stable distribution are security fixes.
> Are there issues running 4.10 of XFree86 on potato?
Some, although I'm given to understand that they're minor. My Potato box
is perfectly happy with 3.3.6, and I see no reason to change it, so I've
not paid particular attention to the Potato builds of XF410.
> It seems my video card (the one I want to use, a Matrox G450) is only
> supported under V4.10 of XFree86.
I believe that is the case. I use one of these in dual-head mode on my
unstable box. Excellent card.
> I'd prefer the simplest possible acquire/install procedure, so I figured
> a deb package was the thing, right?
Certainly. It's just that there aren't any official ones. Try here:
http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/
And see what you can find. Note that these are UNOFFICIAL, and there won't
be much, if any at all, support for them.
> Can anyone recommend a serious tutorial on using dselect, or an X-based
> alternative to dselect? I just don't seem to grok it yet... The 'man'
> pages aren't helping. I invariably end up doing something wrong while in
> "Select" mode and end up Xing out of that for fear of messing things up.
Feh... don't use dselect, unless you have to. Apt-get should be enough for
anyone. :)
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Marc Wilson
mwilson@moonkingdom.net
mwilson@cts.com
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