Bob Clark wrote: > > A couple of months ago I convinced a friend > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian; > and in turn convinced some other people to do the same. He > was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until... > he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works. He's got > an S3V card and I remember seeing other posts to this list > about similar problems. The archives at ftp.debian.org > don't have July postings yet and I didn't find anything in > the June archive. > > Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible > solutions. I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick > but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone.
Try redoing 'xf86config'. I have an s3 (#9 771) card and X did not work first time for me. All I did was go through xf86config and save it as normal and it worked. Seems to go a bit faster as well, maybe the definitions of the card(s) have been improved ?? -- John Stevenson 3rd Yr BSc Soft. Eng. ** Staff/Student Representative ** E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n4215605 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
