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installing XFree v 3



Greetings.  I would like to try installing X3 and see if it works better than X4 with my box.  I have found this to be the case with Mandrake, and while X4 works under Debian, it's a bit slow.

Now, I attempted this once and managed to screw up everything.  Not only did X3 not work, but I couldn't get X4 reinstalled & working either.  Eventually after 2 months of playing around, I somehow got X4 back up.  I don't even know exactly what I did.  Needless to say, I dont want to do this again.

So, to install X3 my question is, do I uninstall anything first?  If so, which packages?
Or, when I configure X3 will the system simply make the changes required to run X3 while still having X4 installed?
I know that for X3 I need xserver-common-v3 and xserver-mach64.  Are there others?
Then I follow the instructions to configure as in secction 9.4.3.2 of the debian reference.
Am I missing any important steps?

Thanks much.
Skippi

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