[ILUG] XFree86 4 for potato

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "PJC" == Paul J Collins <sneakums at zork.net> writes:

    PJC> http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/

    PJC> I'm about to try it out; I'll let you know how it went if I
    PJC> can dig my way out of the rubble.

Crazy: it works.  Following the dist-upgrade, I had to manually
apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (which contains the core X server and
driver modules), link /etc/X11/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 and add my
TrueType directory to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.  I created the config
file using xf86config, but debconf should also handle it as part of
the apt-get install of the server.

Alas, I can't try DRI (the 3D stuff) because my card is not yet
supported.  Gar.

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