*Do Not CC Me* On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:14:49AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:53:09AM +0100, Gerhard Reuteler wrote: > > Hi, > > I am looking for a debian package for XF86 4.0.2 which works for the pismo > > laptop, but I cannot find one. Does it work or is it to early to change > > to > > the new version. > > X is spread over a half-dozen odd packages. Some base files are in > xfree86-common, fonts are in xfonts-base and others, the x-server itself is > in xserver-common and xserver-xfree86. You should choose these packages > from in dselect (or aptitude?), and then dselect will prompt you asking if > you want to include other related packages at the same time. > xserver-xfree86 should work for all video cards (if they are supported by X > v4 at all). > > By the way, v4 itself is only available in Debian unstable (but slowly > making its way into Debian testing). However I think a version has been > compiled informally somewhere for potato (Debian stable). You might find > references to the potato packages on the Debian X mailing list (I think > archives can be found from www.debian.org). You can find the link to the list of unofficial debs on DebianPlanet <http://www.debianplanet.org>, if you look at the left side and scroll down.
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