A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I would like to try debian but am concerned because if I buy slink my Matrox > G400 video card will not be supported.
It's not supported by the Xfree that's included in slink, but that can be easily fixed. > How hard would it be to install slink then upgrade to the new Xfree without > setting up Xwindows? Not hard at all. I do it all the time. This is how I do it: * Add 'deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main' at the end of /etc/apt/sources.list * run 'apt-get update' * run 'apt-get upgrade' That'll upgrade the version of Xfree on your computer to 3.3.5. Just be aware that the Xserver doesn't support the multi-head and TVout capabilities of the card. I strongly recommend that you also add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list before you run 'apt-get update': deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent y2k-update main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates The first is for y2k updates, and the second is for security updates that haven't yet been merged into the main distribution. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
