On Thursday 23 November 2000 13:38, 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.
thanx, but i can't burn any cdrom. i tried to download some of them and then install them using dpkg. the result was a desaster. there are serveral dependency problems i can't solve, cause i can't find the needed packages on this server. any ideas? maybe a neat entry to sources.list i could use to get the files automatically?? (i don't care if it would take some hours of downloading). I just want to get a WORKING xfree server on potato with a geforce 2 MX(! it's different from a real geforce 2) card. it can't be that hard, i tested this environment with svgalib using the vesa drivers. and it worked! why is there no vesa compatible driver for xfree?? it would solve all my problems and i guess a lot more! any ideas? please... this is so poor.. he's got a state of the art 3d graphics board and now he shouldn;t be able to render a simple primitive SVGA screen, cause the card is too NEW?? i don't care about fancy 3d graphics i don't even care about fancy 2d graphics, all i want is a working display with 1024*768 pixel and 16 bit colors. even my old S3 inboard card was able to do that! this is starting to make me sick... any ideas, how i could get those packages to work? the main problem was, that xserver-common depends on xfree86 common, but on the server is no xfree86-common and xlibs conflicts with xlibg6 but if i remove xlibg6, almost the whole system wants to be removed! argh...