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 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) > X-Accept-Language: en > > 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 > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, > Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Because we use vi, son. They use > http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | emacs." -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''
