Re: Geforce 2 Ultra

["Paulo Assis" <paulo@coral.srv.br>]

Hi,

I made a fresh installation of debian 2.2r2 with only standard packages
minus the "x" ones that the standard installation selects, then I installed
the Xfree 4.0.2 packages from Charl P. Botha (thanks Charl) plus
xfonts, xfree86-server and lib6g from Branden, and it runs ok with twm,
when I installed the icewm, dselect de-installed all xfree4.0.2 and mesa.
I re-installed them and now things are ok.

Thanks all for the help!

Paulo Assis

> CB> I would like to know about these, since I've been running 4.0.x on
> CB> potato for a very long time now.
>
> While every effort is made upstream to preserve binary compatibility
> whenever possible, there have been some issues in the past.  For
> example, Netscape 4.* and earlier wouldn't run properly with any of
> the 3.9.* pre-releases, and XFree86 4.0 was delayed a wee bit due to
> this problem.  (The 3.9.* implementation was perfectly correct, but
> Netscape was doing non-standard things.)  A similar issue with a less
> critical client might not have been noticed or worked around.
>
> In addition, binary compatibility is one-way only.  This means that if
> you compile against 4.* and then try to run against 3.3.*, all hell
> will break loose.  The best-known case is that of Xaw (people notice
> due to the ``pretty'' Xaw alternatives, which remain at the 3.3.*
> level), but there are also some such issues with Xlib itself (notably
> the new support for Unicode, which can be detected at compile time).
>
> This is not to say, of course, that you should not be running the 4.*
> X libraries; on the contrary, I am very glad that people do, and I am
> very grateful to you, Carl, for making this possible and even easy.
> But people who do so should be ready to deal with issues such as the
> above.  I, for one, am using the CVS libraries on my home machine, but
> the stock Debian 3.3.6 libraries at work.
>
>                                         Juliusz
>
>
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