On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Thanks very much. I was actually kind of hoping for an RTFM answer too so that I could find this stuff out in the future without posting questions to the list that I could probably find out by reading some manual. the XFree howto doesn't have specific info on 3.3.2 vs 3.3.3, and I find the xfree86.org site difficult to navigate.
the /etc/X11/Xserver tip is exactly what I needed, thanks a million! I've banged my head on alien"ing" RPMs before, do Xservers typically alien well? When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of experimental packages?) Thanks again for your help. -Dano > It is indeed a 3.3.3.1 server. Essentially, you can just download the > pre-compiled binary from your favorite XFree86 mirror-site, and extract > it under /usr/local somewhere. Then edit the first line of > /etc/X11/Xserver to specify the new server. Of course, once 3.3.3.1 has > been packaged (probably won't be much longer, now that slink is [again] > almost out the door), you won't need to worry about all of the above. > > If you'd prefer, I can send you a .deb package for that server which was > converted from the tarball via alien (it's not particularly large). You'd > still need to edit /etc/X11/Xserver manually. > > > I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and > > the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. > > This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that > > server is only for 3.3.3 and I'm not quite sure how to find out. > > > > My question is a) is it for 3.3.3 only and if so, are there any 3.3.3 > > debs? If not, are there docs on compiling my own X server and inserting > > it into debian's list? I would want to remove my old xserver-mach64, but > > AFAIK dpkg would complain about dependencies. > > > > Just a few frantic questions before the card makes it to my door. Thanks > > a lot! > > > > -Dano > >