Segmentation Fault w/ XF86Setup

["Rafe B." <rafeb@adelphia.net>]

I just tried to upgrade my "potato" box with 
XFree86 from "unstable."  Bad idea?

This yields Segmentation Fault when I run XF86Setup.

Mildly chaotic "update" process, since I was 
a bit confused about the Deb packages to get.
I started with:

  xfree86-common
  x-window-system-core
  xserver-common

.. at which point XF86Setup still ran, but 
showed no video boards to select from.  Then 
I went and got:

  xserver-svga
  xserver-xfree86
  libgnomesupport0
  libgnomeui32
  libgnome-perl  // and finally:
  x-window-system

.. which is probably where I should have 
started.

This is on top of a plain vanilla 2.2r3 potato 
distro (does it matter?)  The "old" 3.3.6 
XFree86 worked just fine, but not on my new 
Matrox G-450 board.

Oddly enough, running xdm or startx produces 
a valiant try... there, the report is: 

(EE) No devices detected
 Fatal server error:
 no screens found

So my questions are:

1. Was it dumb to install XF86 4.1 on 
top of a 2.2r3 base (kernel 2.2.18pre21) ?

2. Is it possible that XF86Setup itself was 
somehow not updated?

3. Which deb contains XF86Setup?  Danged 
if I can figure it out...

4. What's the minimim base for running 
XF86 version 4.1.0-9?  Or is "apt-get" 
supposed to deal with such dependencies?

5. Suggestions on where to go from here...


Whew!  Many thanks in advance.  I'm way over 
my head here, I guess <g>.


rafe b.