Re: FWD: XFree 4.2.0 debs
I was wondering why hits on the site just started to pick up!
please remember, these are very non-production debs, and they are mostly
the product of Branden's hard work.
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 20:07, Joey Hess wrote:
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> From: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
> Date: 20 Apr 2002 23:10:13 -0400
> To: debian-x@lists.debian.org
> Subject: XFree 4.2.0 debs
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> look at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/x/
>
> if people could mirror it, it be nice :)
>
> remember, these are quick and dirty debs. They are not production
> quality at all, I've been using them on my Thinkpad T21 w/o much issue,
> but don't yell if they break on you. I believe you should be able to
> downgrade to 4.1.0-16 but I haven't tested that (except the xlibs stuff)
>
> I recommend you use Branden's xlibs, as there seems to be a locale
> problem with these xlibs that causes acroread to crash, applications to
> print out warnings each time (at least in gnome) and Evolution to have
> font issues.
>
> I downgraded (i.e. dpkg -i xlibs_*.deb xlibs-dev_*.deb) to the the
> 4.1.0-16 debs and everything seems to work fine.
>
> XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> Release Date: 18 January 2002
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
> newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
> reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
>
> In building these I realize how much work Branden has put into them.
> People should give him a break. :) kudos for the great job he has
> done!.
>
> shaya
>
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