Confusion about X in woody
I installed Potato from CDs, and have since done an apt-get dist-upgrade
to woody, and have been following woody since (with apt-get upgrade and
install as needed when new packages arrived). I've recently noticed
that I appear to be using X version 4.1, as shown by this partial output
from dpkg -l:
ii xdm 4.1.0-11 X display manager
ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-11 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
ii xfs 4.1.0-11 X font server
ii xlib6g 4.1.0-11 pseudopackage providing X libraries
ii xlibs 4.1.0-11 X Window System client libraries
ii xserver-common 4.1.0-11 files and utilities common to all X servers
ii xserver-common-v3 3.3.6-42 files and utilities common to XFree86 3.x X
ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-42 X server for SVGA graphics cards
ii xterm 4.1.0-11 X terminal emulator
ii xutils 4.1.0-11 X Window System utility programs
ii xvfb 4.1.0-11 virtual framebuffer X server
I figured that the two v 3.3.6 packages (note that I've added the "-v3"
to the appropriate line, that was quite confusing for a while) were
obsolete, and deleted them (while X was not running). Ha! xdm wouldn't
start! I put them back and now all is well again. It appears that xdm
was trying to start /etc/X11/X which is a symlink to
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA, which comes from xserver-svga v 3.3.6.
So, all is working again, but I think I'm running some weird 3.3.6/4.1
crossbreed which worries me. I'd like to be able to get rid of the
3.3.6 stuff. My video card is an NVIDIA Riva TNT Model 64, which 3
didn't support directly (hence the svga). Does 4 support this directly,
and how do I configure it to use it?
Thanks!
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