Re: another potato/woody X3/4 question
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:14:46PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> 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?
If you're at all interested in running 3D programs, I would strongly
suggest you stick with X3. Mach64 3d acceleration only works with X3 at
the moment (see the utah-glx package), although work is being done to
get it working on X4 as well (as part of the DRI project). I downgraded
from X4 to X3 yesterday just to get 3D acceleration (I have a Mach64 on
a laptop as well), and I'm very happy with the result.
> >
> 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].
While this is true for the X server, there seem to be larger conflicts
between the different GL libraries.
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Note that I use Debian version 3.0
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Matijs
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