----- Forwarded message from Bill Darrow <bdarrow@optonline.net> ----- From: Bill Darrow <bdarrow@optonline.net> To: branden@debian.org Subject: interesting problems Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:09:02 -0500 Delivered-To: branden@localhost.deadbeast.net Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net Message-ID: <3A340D0E.88CE9645@optonline.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Good afternoon. I've spent most of my day working at this interesting problem I am having. I upgraded earlier today only to notice that xf4 was replacing xf3.3.6. I had found bad experiences with this software before and chose to continue use of 3.3.6. I notified others of my problem and recieved information about installing the old xserver while basically still using the new base. This idea seems brilliant except for the fact that I was alarmed when I found that xserver-mach64 no longer exists. I can't grab one from an old dist as the dependencies are fucked up from those ones. Also, once I felt cornered, I tried using xf4, but it couldn't get a screen to work. None of the combinations seemed to work, I tried forever and it just kept spitting out that 'no screens found' after it found none of them to be useable. Now, I can't go back to the old xserver or use the new one. I do not have money to seek professional help in this situation and I do not have enough money to buy a different video card. I use this machine for work and it is all I have. Please see if you can help, I wasted an entire day with no pay now trying to upgrade and running into perl and x problems now. I can't afford another day like this one. Please, any help is greatly appreciated. You are my last resort. Time is precious, Bill Darrow ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" branden@deadbeast.net | "Because we use vi, son. They use http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | emacs."
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