Unlike Neale Banks, I saw the failed dependency in Branden's packages and thought I'd try a minimal-effort backport. (I've gone down cascading dependency hell street once or twice before, and wanted to avoid it if I could.) The source file set wasn't much bigger than the packages I would have needed, although I did have to add a few odds and ends, mainly -dev versions of things. Dropped it all into a spare 4GB partition and pointed dpkg-buildpackage at it, and in a little more than an hour (P3/850) had a set of packages to try.
They work pretty well. I'd heard about the xdm problem, so I just don't use it. Small loss with all the starting and stopping of X I did getting the new Radeon card running. :-) Speaking of the Radeon, that's one glitch I had to deal with. It works fine if I have the DRI module (from 2.4.19-rc1) loaded before I startx; otherwise the startup fails. But as I said, it's working pretty well. Well enough that I've been wasting gobs of time the last few days with FlightGear. Even coaxed an inexpensive USB flightstick into working, and now I can - sometimes - get the Cessna into the air. Other times the results are more... interesting. ;-) -- There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked. -- Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]