On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: > I've found Daniel's woody backported packages (1). But as his package > doesn't contain my driver, I thought of getting the via driver from > XFree source, compile it and add it to the > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ directory. You can find drivers on http://www.viaarena.com, I think. > And thats' what I did. I first installed Daniel's package. > I then compiled X using the latest tarball from XFree (XFree 4.3.99.6 - > 10th of June 2003), (gosh that takes time!!) > And i copied the driver to the correct place and restarted X. > Unfortunately, there is an ABI problem. > > [...] > (EE) module ABI minor version (7) is newer than the server's version (6) > [...] > > I am wondering what should I do now. I would rather use a Debian pacakge > XFree, if possible. Answer: You can't. The driver interface has changed again in the pre-4.4 series, so you can't use pre-4.4 drivers with a 4.3 server. > - otherwise, is it possible for me to find a Debian source package of > the latest Xfree 4.3? Can I use the subversion repository to build a > woody package of the latest XFree? No and no, unfortunately. 4.3.99.6 isn't actually 4.3.x - it's pre-4.4.x. To my knowledge, no-one has packaged it, and you can't use our Subversion repository to build for woody without backporting libxft2, fontconfig, render, xrender and xcursor. > - if not is there any guidance/tips on installing XFree from source, > especially on a machine where XFree is already installed. I want to mess > as less as possible with the packages on that machine. Should I > uninstall (purge) Daniel's packages first? Should I then install X it in > a different directory? I've read stories of people trashing their system > doing so. If you're going to do so, purge my packages first, but I strongly, strongly, strongly recommend checking viaarena - I doubt *all* your options are exhausted. > (0) I installed Debian using PXE boot - just to say that the > documentation regarding PXE boot in Debian is not very easy to read. > Iv'e found much better documents on the web. There was an excellent article posted at http://www.debianplanet.org a while back. > (1) BTW: there was a probem with Daniel's packages during configuration. > I've found that other peoplehaving the same problem > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200304/msg02117.html > > I had to patch /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.templates to solve it: > It contained entries like "_description" that I replaced by > "Description". I can provide a patch if necessary. This was fixed ages ago - Marcelo's backports of my packages are absolutely ancient. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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