Re: Xfree86 4.3

[Bruce Sass <bsass@edmc.net>]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, John Holland wrote:

> Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is
> there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of
> stable and unstable.
> Thanks,

I've been using Xfree-4.3 for awhile (first Daniel Stone's packages
and now 4.3.0-0pre1v4 from experimental) without any serious
problems... on-the-fly resolution switching (CTRL-ALT-+|-) messes up
the display and X needs to be restarted to fix it, SDL apps cause the
monitor to go into standby mode (switch to text then back to X to fix
it).


To install you will need to:

1) add experimental to your sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free

2) explicitly tell apt you want to fetch from experimental, either:
# apt-get -t experimental install ...
or
--- /etc/apt/sources.list ---
APT::Default-Release "experimental";
---
The sources.list method is a must if you use dselect, and you probably
want to do an update/upgrade sans experimental immediately before
updating with experimental so that you can put everything else in
experimental on hold.


- Bruce