On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:32:06PM -0500, 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, Not unless you want to run testing. > or going backward to > 3.x (I can't remember the exact number of the last 3.x version)? 3.3.6 was yucky, compared to 4.x :) > > Also, what are the consequences of this when I'm installing other packages? > Last time around I had some failures when I tried using apt-get to install > some packages (I forgot the error message). Does getting one (or a few) > packages from testing cause problems with installing packages from stable > later? Yep, using packages from testing will cause problems. Fortunately, a kind soul has built 4.2 debs for woody. I can't remember the exact URL, and I'm offline now, but I think it was http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/. Using these is a much better idea than trying to get a newer version of X from testing. -rob
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