XFree 4, potato and Ximian-gnome
Hello again.. After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to X 4.x I've finally reached my patience limit. Despite a fair bit of help and advice from a number of list members (thanks everyone!) I've been unable to successfully achieve my goal. I figure one last shot and then I'll move to woody, or.. well I'm not sure what. ;-) 1. Has anyone on this list succesfully upgraded a potato box which is running Ximian gnome to X 4.x? 2. If after I complete all the steps that have been outlined time and time again but am still missing the actual XFree86 file (to which those symlinks eventually lead), what does that suggest? Marc.
Re: XFree 4, potato and Ximian-gnome
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:28:54PM -0700, MRZ wrote: Hello again.. After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to X 4.x I've finally reached my patience limit. Despite a fair bit of help and advice from a number of list members (thanks everyone!) I've been unable to successfully achieve my goal. I figure one last shot and then I'll move to woody, or.. well I'm not sure what. ;-) I would recommend moving to testing (or better yet, unstable ... search the archive for Joey Hess's pinning config for apt which installs testing preferentially but allows installs from unstable when specified). I've got three boxes which have been running unstable for months ... no major problems. The combination of kernel 2.4.x and XFree 4.x is awesome (and on one box was the only way I could get X running at all). 1. Has anyone on this list successfully upgraded a potato box which is running Ximian gnome to X 4.x? I used Helix/Ximian for a while until I started getting segfaults or even worse, hung startups. About three months ago I purged all Helix/Ximian packages and used the debian ones instead ... I've been a lot happier! -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpdA1xN0FSIt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree 4, potato and Ximian-gnome
I'm currently running potato with the unofficial Xfree 4.03 debs available from cpbotha. I'm running Ximian GNOME 1.4. It's the most stable and usable setup I've had so far. On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:28:54PM -0700, MRZ wrote: Hello again.. After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to X 4.x I've finally reached my patience limit. Despite a fair bit of help and advice from a number of list members (thanks everyone!) I've been unable to successfully achieve my goal. I figure one last shot and then I'll move to woody, or.. well I'm not sure what. ;-) 1. Has anyone on this list succesfully upgraded a potato box which is running Ximian gnome to X 4.x? 2. If after I complete all the steps that have been outlined time and time again but am still missing the actual XFree86 file (to which those symlinks eventually lead), what does that suggest? Marc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
