Re: XFree86 4.1 --> 4.2.1 (Woody)
So, here we meet again ;-)
First of all, get Your fingers away - far far away - from any Xfree86.org
binaries! Worst idea ever, really.
On my notebook I "upgraded" manually to xfree 4.3 (because of a lack of driver
support for Geforce Go chipsets in 4.1). Finally, when the next X Update
arrived, apt was that confused, it absolutely stoped working. I couldn't
install or upgrade anything anymore. So this is a definite DON'T.
You have different options to stay with a running system, for one, You could
upgrade to testing (sarge). It is assumed, that sarge will arrive this year,
some muter the mid of June as a release date. So You can assume, current
sarge distribution is quite stable. You will have to be more careful in the
sense of security updates, that is, they happen still a bit more often than
in stable and some bugs might take longer to be fixed.
Second option, You grab Your copy from backport.org or something similar, I've
never done backport personally, so I can't tell You anything about it.
Third option (that's what I did (for other reasons)). You get to the DRI
homepage, get their Debian packages (for stable) and get both, accelerated 3D
AND working X at the same time.
I've done that and am quite happy with the result. the driver is quite fast
(almost the same speed as the ati binaries), I've not yet had a single crash
and the installation procedure is quite simple (less complicated than their
howto suggests). You can find the page (and related info) here:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/
Hope I could help THIS time...
js
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