On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 11:58, Daniel Stone wrote: > 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.
yes but I thought that the XFree drivers would be more up to date. > > - 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. OK I will try that. > > (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. Yep saw it. That's one of the documents I've used. But that doesn't change the fact that the Debian install manual is still not an easy read. > > (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. OK thanks Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
