Re: X 4.3.0

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:58:15PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Bill Moseley wrote:
> >I plugged in Knoppix 3.3 and noticed both better fonts and a number of
> >Xinerama problems gone over my X4.2 Sid setup.  On Xinerama problem that
> >was fixed was the display of text on the wrong monitor.
> >
> >What's involved in installing the 4.3 packages from experimental.  Are
> >people using that package without major problems at this time?
> >
> 
> These are the lines I have iw my sources.list:
> 
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main 
> contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main 
> contrib non-free

Then is is this?

   # apt-get -t experimental install x-window-system


Here's what would change on my machine.

bumby:/etc/apt# apt-get -t experimental -s install x-window-system
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  x-window-system-core xdm xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu xlibmesa-glu-dev
  xnest
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xlibmesa3 xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  x-window-system x-window-system-core xdm xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-glu xnest
The following packages will be upgraded
  xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev
2 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 3 to remove and 109 not upgraded.
Remv xlibmesa3 (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Inst xlibmesa-gl-dev [4.2.1-13] (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental) []
Remv xlibmesa3-gl (4.2.1-14 Debian:unstable) [libqt3c102-mt bzflag xbase-clients xmms-iris libglut3 mplayer egoboo xlockmore-gl libwxgtk2.2 libwxgtk2.4 libwine plib1c102 libsdl-perl libfltk1.1c102 gtkglarea5 libfltk1 armagetron ]
Inst xlibmesa-gl (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Inst xlibmesa-glu-dev [4.2.1-13] (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental) []
Remv xlibmesa3-glu (4.2.1-14 Debian:unstable) [libqt3c102-mt bzflag xbase-clients libglut3 xlockmore-gl libwxgtk2.4 libwine flightgear libsdl-perl libfltk1.1c102 gtkglarea5 libfltk1 armagetron ]
Inst xlibmesa-glu (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Inst xlibmesa-dri (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Inst x-window-system-core (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Inst xdm (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Inst xnest (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Inst x-window-system (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf xlibmesa-gl (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf xlibmesa-gl-dev (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf xlibmesa-glu (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf xlibmesa-glu-dev (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf xlibmesa-dri (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf x-window-system-core (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf xdm (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf xnest (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)
Conf x-window-system (4.3.0-0pre1v4 Debian:experimental)

> 
> I have been using X 4.3 since July with no problems.
> 
> -Roberto



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