Ok, this situation is less than fun.
My first thought -- pretty much guaranteed to work -- download/buy/use
the latest release of potato, and reinstall. Not much fun, but I bet X
will work.
Second thought -- try dpkg -l | grep 4.0.1 and apt-get remove all these
packages. Check your /var/cache/apt/archives directory for the old X
packages. (If you don't clean your apt repository much, your old X .debs
might still be around.)
Sadly, I have long since trashed my repository, and have no traces of
the original 3.3.x archives around. I would imagine there are many
mirrors of the old packages around -- ftp.cdrom.com and ftp.kernel.org
come to mind as likely to have mirrors going back a ways.
Best of luck.
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001210 16:24]:
> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Darrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
>
> From: Bill Darrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: interesting problems
> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:09:02 -0500
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> Good afternoon. I've spent most of my day working at this interesting
> problem I am having. I upgraded earlier today only to notice that xf4
> was replacing xf3.3.6. I had found bad experiences with this software
> before and chose to continue use of 3.3.6. I notified others of my
> problem and recieved information about installing the old xserver while
> basically still using the new base. This idea seems brilliant except
> for the fact that I was alarmed when I found that xserver-mach64 no
> longer exists. I can't grab one from an old dist as the dependencies
> are fucked up from those ones. Also, once I felt cornered, I tried
> using xf4, but it couldn't get a screen to work. None of the
> combinations seemed to work, I tried forever and it just kept spitting
> out that 'no screens found' after it found none of them to be useable.
> Now, I can't go back to the old xserver or use the new one. I do not
> have money to seek professional help in this situation and I do not have
> enough money to buy a different video card. I use this machine for work
> and it is all I have. Please see if you can help, I wasted an entire
> day with no pay now trying to upgrade and running into perl and x
> problems now. I can't afford another day like this one. Please, any
> help is greatly appreciated. You are my last resort.
>
> Time is precious,
> Bill Darrow
>
>
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