On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:08:50AM +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > Hi, > > for my s3 video card I need XFree 3.6 because XFree >= 4 hasn't support for > it. > > Ok, so I did this under Debian Woody (computer: Motorala Powerstack 300 MHz): > ppc:~# apt-get -s install xserver-s3 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package xserver-s3 has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > of sources.list > However the following packages replace it: > xserver-common > E: Package xserver-s3 has no installation candidate > > Well, ... > > Is there no ppc binary package of xserver-s3 available? What is the reason of > missing XFree 3.6 support under PPC? > > Or is just my configuration broken? > > What is the Debian-way to get XFree 3.6 on this Box?
I don't _believe_ that S3/XFree worked on PPC ever. What I would suggest is that you pick up a PCI-based Matrox Millenium 1 (_some_ versions of PPCBUG support this, I believe), run a framebuffer on that, and run an Xserver over that. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
