Re: Which version of X should I use?

[Gary Turner <kk5st@sbcglobal.net>]

Hal Vaughan wrote:

>I'm re-installing Debian on a system.
>
>I tried this last month and ran into trouble with the video card (ATI Radeon 
>All-In-Wonder).  It turns out the version of X in the current stable branch 
>does not support my card well.  The previous version supported it and 4.2 
>supports it.
>
>So am I better off going into testing and getting X 4.2, or going backward to 
>3.x (I can't remember the exact number of the last 3.x version)?

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xfree86 v3 and v4 are separate packages, and both in Woody.  Do
apt-cache show xfree86-common for more info on v4.  apt-cache show
xfree86-common-v3 is about v3, duh.  I recall that while in Potato
(stable) I had to upgrade to Woody (testing) to get v4 for i810 video
support.

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