On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:24:01AM -0600, Remy Indebetouw wrote: > I've got a potato/woody pinned hybrid, and my main reluctance to just > dist-upgrade is related to this: > > I appear to have both Xfree 3 and 4 (see apt-cache output below; I > didn't purposefully do this, parts of X4 came along with libc6-dev, I > think. BTW thanks to those who convinced me that apt would not lead me > astray in a hydrid system. deb packaging rocks once again). In woody, both XFree86 3 & 4 are include since some hardware supported in 3 is not supported in 4. > > I used a patched Mach64 server on my Dell I7K laptop (ATI Rage), so what > I'd like to do is configure and try X4 without trashing X3, or at least > know how to get back, so > -how do i tell if I have all parts of X4 (I thought this was x-window-system) > -how would i get back if it doesn't work? restore the > old /etc/X11/XF86Config and what else?? > -once X4 works can i just purge task-x-window-system to wipe X3? > Config file for X3 is XF86Config and for X4 it's XF86Config-4. To try X4: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 /etc/X11/XF86Config will still be there unchanged. If you don't like the results, I think all you need to do is change symlink /etc/X11/X to point to old X3 server you want to use and restart X. Or just rerun dpkg-reconfigure [xserver-you-want-to-use]. -- Jerome
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