Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 15 2003 09:37 am, JoeHill wrote: > that's what I thought...I'm thinkin' 9.2 cooker is a good bet, > but I can't find a mirror to download an ISO, tho it says on the > MDK site they *are* out there (watching us, waiting...). Best way to install cooker is to start with 9.1, then d

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:28:56 +0300 Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Stick with 3.3.6 until Mdk 9.2 comes out. An S3 Trio will look crap > whatever driver you have, anyway ;-) ach, laddie, it's an old P200 anyway, just a test machine, but with 3.3.6 I can't get any of the better WMs to

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread Robin Turner
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 01:57:23 -0400 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Out of curiosity, why do you want to do that? On my now famous Compaq Deskpro, it has an onboard S3 Trio64V2/GX which is only supported by X 3.3.6 or the latest 4.3.x. Stick with 3.3.6 until Mdk 9.2 comes out. A

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread aron smith
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 00:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:32, JoeHill wrote: > > Okay, the options are compiling the latest source tarball and praying > > or...? > > Use urpmi, or red-carpet. new version of red carpet is nice but urpmi seems to be more versatile. Want to buy yo

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 01:57:23 -0400 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Out of curiosity, why do you want to do that? On my now famous Compaq Deskpro, it has an onboard S3 Trio64V2/GX which is only supported by X 3.3.6 or the latest 4.3.x. Since it is a "test" machine, I am thinkin Robin *mig

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread Robin Turner
JoeHill wrote: Okay, the options are compiling the latest source tarball and praying or...? The only easy way to upgrade is to wait for a new version of Mandrake ;-) Seriously, though, if you really need to do it, urpmi should do the trick, and be prepared to hack your XF86Config file. I don't r

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:32, JoeHill wrote: > Okay, the options are compiling the latest source tarball and praying > or...? Use urpmi, or red-carpet. -- Tue Jul 15 17:20:00 EST 2003 17:20:00 up 1 day, 9:23, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.23, 0.13

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-14 Thread Miark
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 01:32:10 -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, the options are compiling the latest source tarball and praying > or...? Out of curiosity, why do you want to do that? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-14 Thread JoeHill
Okay, the options are compiling the latest source tarball and praying or...? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net Guest (shouting): "I asked: how many computers you have running in here?!" Me (shouting): "Sorry! I can't hear y