[NBLUG/talk] XFree86 4.3

[Kyle Rankin]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:21:37PM -0700, Rob Orsini wrote:
> At 03:14 PM 9/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >At 11:00 AM 9/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:54:16AM -0700, Rob Orsini wrote:
> >>> Being a new Debian user with a ATI Radeon Mobility card on my Fujitsu
> >>> p2120, I'm looking for the most idiot proof method of upgrading xfree86
> >>> from 4.1 to 4.3 so that it can 'see' my card.  (I'm trying to avoid the
> >>> aforementioned "XFree86 upgrade Vortex")  I expect to be pointed to the
> >>> xfree86 instructions but am wondering if there are other options for 
> >>me.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Rob
> >>>
> >>
> >>There are experimental X 4.3 packages available for Debian, simply add 
> >>this
> >>line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
> >>deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./
> >>
> >>and then apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
> >>
> >>By the way, you can search for experimental or other sources that aren't 
> >>in
> >>the standard Debian repositories by going to http://www.apt-get.org
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kyle Rankin
> >
> >So, I'm connected remotely to my P at the moment and have run the above 
> >commands.  I might need to restart the box to get the 4.3 stuff to take 
> >(??) but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to get back in till I get home 
> >because my default net settings are hosed.  All that being said, I ran 
> >`startx` and below is the tail end of the output. I'm don't know much 
> >about what's going on except it looks promising that radeon_drv.o is 
> >loading (of atempting to).  Any thoughts?  Oh, here's my conf file: 
> >http://www.orsinidesigns.com/p2120_xfree86config-4
> >
> >Rob
> 
> 
> Wait a minute!  The lid on on the laptop is closed.  Does that mean that I 
> wouldn't have a chance a starting X from here?  lol
> 
> Rob 
> 

Honestly, it would be better to diagnose X problems when are you actually
physically at the machine.

By the way, you don't need to restart a machine to try a new X server you
have upgraded.  In Linux about the only time you would normally have to
reboot would be if you upgraded kernels and wanted to try the new one,
otherwise you can restart basically everything else without resorting to
rebooting.

-- 
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
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