Xfree86 4.2.XXX

[MallarJ@aol.com]

I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a model that came out early last year).  It's got a Trident CyberBlade XP Ail graphics adapter.

I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the following conclusions:

* XFree86 (hereafter referred to as simply X) 4.2.0 appears to support the card, but only in framebuffer mode.
* I also hear there is support in non-framebuffer mode, but it's unaccellerated.
* Looking at the XFree86 site, they have just added accelerated support to the X 4.2.99 snapshot.

So - I'm interested in getting the latest source and compling it myself.

The problem is Debian.

I have potato installed, which of course uses X 3.3.6 (which by the way isn't even supported by XFree86 anymore it's so old).  There are no X 4.2.0 debs to be found for potato (hell, 4.1 for potato is still a development release!!), so that option is pretty much out.  I'm not quite ready to switch to Woody yet although even if I did that wouldn't solve my problem.

I can install the X 4.2.99 snapshot.  My question is, what about Debian's dependencies?  I plan on installing a large amount of X stuff (KDE, OpenOffice, etc.), and I know that those packages are going to have dependencies on X software.  However, since I'm not installing from .deb files, how do I go about doing this?  Is there a way to make it look like the packages are installed so I don't have to worry about X dependencies?

And looking down the road (albiet probably more than a year from now) when there are .debs for X 4.3.0 (the upcoming release), what would I need to change to start using the .debs again?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
-Jay