> I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a model that > came out early last year). It's got a Trident CyberBlade XP Ail graphics > adapter. > > I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the following > conclusions: > > * XFree86 (hereafter referred to as simply X) 4.2.0 appears to support the > card, but only in framebuffer mode. > * I also hear there is support in non-framebuffer mode, but it's > unaccellerated. > * Looking at the XFree86 site, they have just added accelerated support to > the X 4.2.99 snapshot. > > So - I'm interested in getting the latest source and compling it myself. > > The problem is Debian. > > I have potato installed, which of course uses X 3.3.6 (which by the way isn't > even supported by XFree86 anymore it's so old). There are no X 4.2.0 debs to > be found for potato (hell, 4.1 for potato is still a development release!!), > so that option is pretty much out. I'm not quite ready to switch to Woody > yet although even if I did that wouldn't solve my problem. > > I can install the X 4.2.99 snapshot. My question is, what about Debian's > dependencies? I plan on installing a large amount of X stuff (KDE, > OpenOffice, etc.), and I know that those packages are going to have > dependencies on X software. However, since I'm not installing from .deb > files, how do I go about doing this? Is there a way to make it look like the > packages are installed so I don't have to worry about X dependencies? > > And looking down the road (albiet probably more than a year from now) when > there are .debs for X 4.3.0 (the upcoming release), what would I need to > change to start using the .debs again?
I had to put 4.2 (still not in a Sid deb <grumble>) on my notebook. I did the binary install on top of the 4.1 that was on there. All the dependencies are still there, so installs/upgrades of X apps work fine. And when 4.2 comes out in deb, I'll just apt-get that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]