RE: xfree 4.2 support in woody and/or sid? MISSING xf86PciInfo.h
How about using dpkg-reconfigure? It should work fine if you installed
it from debs... X -configure has never worked well for me anyway.
-Ronald
-----Original Message-----
From: Hanasaki JiJi [mailto:hanasaki@hanaden.com]
Sent: viernes, 05 de julio de 2002 1:13
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: xfree 4.2 support in woody and/or sid? MISSING
xf86PciInfo.h
Installed like a charm... Unfortunately, X -configure is stating that
the data for the card has not been added to:
xf86PciInfo.h
:(
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:52:41AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> | At 07:18 PM 07/04/02 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> | >On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:45:59 -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> | >> Is there an line that can be added to bring in xfree 4.2 for
woody? If
> | >> not, how about for sid?
>
> | And thus: http://people.debian.org/~branden/sid/
> |
> | Ok, I'm slow. Do we update sources.list and update & dist-upgrade
or
> | download individual debs?
>
> I don't know if that directory is apt-gettable, but downloading
> individual packages (eg with wget) always works.
>
> Taking a quick glance with links, I see a file named "APT". It reads
> as follows :
>
> ~~~~~
> # add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this repository
> deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/$(ARCH)/
> # add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this source
repository
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/source/
> ~~~~~
>
> | If sources.list, is there an example. And if individual debs, which
> | ones and in what order should the be installed with dpkg?
>
> The ones you want, just as always. You can install them all at once
> with 'dpkg -i' (just list all the file names).
>
> | Or, I'm about ready to reinstall Sid on a laptop. Do I need to
install
> | x-window-system before downloading the 4.2 files, or can the 4.2
files be
> | installed with no prior X on the machine?
>
> I would choose to not install an old version of X when you know you're
> not going to keep it. If the 4.2 packages are uninstallable if you
> don't already have an X install then they are buggy and unusable (how
> then could they be part of 'stable' which is meant to be installed
> from scratch).
>
> -D
>
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