Re: old hardware, newer Debian

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Mike McClain wrote:
> I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been running woody on for 5 years and find I can't run X cause the Trident tvga 9800b chipset is no longer supported in the xserver-xfree86 v4.3. Any body got any idea what risks I'd run to install woody X stuff on sarge or is there a better way?
> TIA,
> Mike
>
>
>   

Etch is very nearly the new stable and uses xorg instead of xfree86. 
There is a package in Etch that seems to meet your needs (search for 
"trident" in "testing" at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages):

   X.Org X server -- Trident display driver
   This package provides the driver for Trident 
Blade/Image/ProVidia/TGUI/9xxx video cards.

Perhaps you should go with Etch?

--
Chris.