On Saturday 19 June 2004 Tim Green alugmain2003@spodlife.org wrote:
X has been tricky for me because of a lack of a clear distinction between v3 and v4 of XFree86 in Stable.
Could you clarify this please? Is there a version 4 of XF86 in 'Woody', I have both 'Woody' and 'Sarge'. Debian is renowned for its stability, and obviously the current/stable version must be the most stable. I would, if I could get X to work with my graphics card use 'Woody', but to do that I need version 4.
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:31:22AM +0100, John Seago wrote:
On Saturday 19 June 2004 Tim Green alugmain2003@spodlife.org wrote:
X has been tricky for me because of a lack of a clear distinction between v3 and v4 of XFree86 in Stable.
Could you clarify this please? Is there a version 4 of XF86 in 'Woody', I have both 'Woody' and 'Sarge'. Debian is renowned for its stability, and obviously the current/stable version must be the most stable. I would, if I could get X to work with my graphics card use 'Woody', but to do that I need version 4.
Running "apt-cache search xserver | sort | less" shows a big list of xservers. I am running Woody and I see things like "xserver-s3", "xserver-svga" and "xserver-common-v3". I think these are the v3 packages.
For v4 you want "xserver-xfree86" and "xserver-common".
Probably.
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