On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:20:53AM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Greetings! > > As some of you following this list know, I have been trying to get my > "ATI Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]" board working with XFree86-4.1 > under stable. After much help and emails, it appears that that > controller/chip isn't supported under v4.1. :-( > > So, since I think the board is a decent one, I guess my only > alternative is to provide a later XFree86 version. Keeping in mind > that I'm running Woody/stable, to which version should I upgrade? > > Various correspondents state that 4.2.1 supports my board. Version > 4.3.0 and 4.4.0 are some of the "latest and greatest". But, I thought > I might just "get my feet wet" (since I have done *zero* backports) > with the 4.2.1 version. Suggestions? Well, you don't have to do any of the backporting yourself (unless you really want to). Just install a backported version that someone else has done. > One thing that concerns me, though, is the affect of upgrading the X > server. I assume I will have to "purge" all traces of the current > version. But won't that also remove components that depend on it > (e.g., kde, ...)? If true, what will be the best way to recover those > X11-dependent applications? That's only a problem if you remove the current X before you install the new one. > The final issue for me is the actual process of changing to 4.2.1 > under Woody. I've done the usual searches (seems like FAQs), but > didn't find anything that appeared to describe the actual procedure. > > I do have these URLs: > > http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/xfree86/binary-i386/ > > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.1/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc22/ > > Should they be my starting point? Only the first one - you won't need the second. Add: deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ stable xfree86 to your /etc/apt/sources.list, then run: apt-get update apt-get install x-window-system -s (check the output from this to make sure it's not going to do anything you don't want) apt-get install x-window-system -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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