Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

["Antony Gelberg" <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> --- Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk> escribió:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get XFree86 going with my Radeon 9000 Pro in Woody.
>>
>
> There is your problem.  The Radeon 9000 Pro is too new for that
> X-server.  It is even too new for the version of the X-server in
> Sarge.  You can either
> get a Woody backport of XFree86 4.3 (from apt-get.org) or go to
> unstable.
>
> However, unstable hasn't quite received the 4.3 version of XFree86
> and the 3D is broken for Radeon cards.

Hi Roberto,

Thanks, what took you so long?  ;)  I'm not going to unstable.  I've also
never played with backports, bet it's a can of worms.  :)  A backport is a
later package version with dependencies that let it install on older
distributions, right?

Anyway, I'm gonna get me some of this...
deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/$(ARCH)/ ./

Antony