[NBLUG/talk] XFree86 4.3

[Rob Orsini]

On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 03:28 PM, Kyle Rankin wrote:

> 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.

Alright, it's been a long night.  Here's what I've done.  Updated from 
Woody to Sid (unstable).  Tried to re-update the 4.3 deb stuff which 
wasn't working.  In an blind attempt to 'remove' those packages I ended 
up hosing my install (perhaps).  Anyway, reinstalled Debian Woody.  
Again, upgraded to Sid.  Installed 4.3 stuff from said source and... 
nuttin'.  Same XFree86 version and naturally same X errors.  I'm out of 
ideas.  Can anyone offer some more direction?

Thanks,
Rob