Re: Installing XFree86 for Debian Linux Woody 3.0r2
--- CheeWee <cwching@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ppl,
> I intend to use KDE as my desktop environment, so I installed the
> KDE packages as well as X Windows deb packages from my Debian Linux CD
> set containing 7 Cds. The XFree86 package version is 4.1.0-16.
> However, I found difficulty configuring the X Server to work properly
> as my graphics controller is the default graphics controller under
> Intel 865G chipset and according to XFree86 website I need XFree86
> version 4.3.0 and above to get the driver to use it.
http://apt-get.org/search.php?query=xserver-xfree86&submit=&arch%5B%5D=i386
Contains a listing of backports to woody that you can use. When you have
found an appropriate deb/deb-src line, add them to your
/etc/apt/sources.list file, apt-get update && apt-get install
xserver-xfree86
HTH
-- Thomas Adam
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