Re: Upgrading XFree86
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:13:10AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote:
> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 08:49:29 -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> > > I need some advice on how to upgrade the XFree86 files that came with
> > > Slink. My problem is that I have a card (STB nVIDIA TNT, 16 Mb of RAM) not
> > > listed in the stable version, but listed in the unstable version of X.
> >
> > At http://netgod.net/x/ you can find newer X packages compiled for use on
> > "stable".
> >
> However, I've got a Viper 770 (TNT2 16 MB) and that doesn't show up
> until 3.3.4 those files are at http://www.debian.org/~branden/
> As of 48 hrs ago, it had dependency problems on the fonts. I may try
> again this weekend if there's been a fix. Otherwise, I'm considering
> the Potato option...
You might want to try getting the xserver binary from ftp.xfree86.org
and using it with your 3.3.3 installation.
Bob
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