On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:38:12PM +0100, Manuel Reiter wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > well, thanks.. the problem is how to get X running with potato? > > i don't want to tell my father to install woody. > > i guess he will compile xfree 4 on his own if there is no other solution. > > maybe this will break a lot of things (dependencies) so i don't have a good > > fealing about this.. :( > > You could go to > > http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/cpbotha > > where you will find .deb packages of XFree86 4.0.1 compiled for potato. I > burned everything from dists downward (if I remeber correctly) on a CD and > used it with apt-cdrom. Worked like a charm and got me X running on my > Geforce 2 GTS card. If you want the fancy GeForce 2 Graphics, you will > probably have to get Nvidia's drivers from their website. > > I only recently installed this and have not experimented too much with it. > > > isn't there ANY way in xfree 3(!) to get a not supported card to work?? > > even if it runs in svga compatible mode with only 4mb of detected video > > ram, > > i wouldn;t care!! but it has to work! > > I experimented only briefly, but as far as I remember, I could only get > XFree86 3.3.1 to work in 640x480 and 16 colors. nvidia has drivers for linux xf4 too, they work with the debian version i guess.
look at http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html for more info -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < `-------------------------------------------' Sorry, we deleted that package last week... ---------------------------------------------