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Re: [LUG] Debian and X



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linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> dselect made it easy to uninstall XFree86v4 and rollback to v3.

What is dselect ? ;-)

You mean you use something other than "apt"? Weird.

I think you can have Xfree86 V4 installed, and just install the 3.3.6
SVGA driver as an option to V4. Haven't done it, but I'm sure "apt-cache
search XFree86" was hinting at that (and I've seen it on Redhat as well
to cope with cards v4 doesn't support), perhaps I didn't make myself clear.

> Debconf then sorted out the XF86Config file to match. A simple
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
>
> and X worked fine. I'm now using KDE2 - so the next job is to upgrade to
>
> KDE3. I haven't set up KMail on the laptop yet, so I'm posting this
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> using Konqueror and the members area. (therefore, unsigned.)

Are you sure you don't just want unstable? It is a lot more stable than
building your own Debian variant in my limited experience.

I certainly found that XFree86 dependencies are an issue for some
applications, probably not that surprising really.

 Simon, whose Debian boxes are all powered off at the moment.
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