On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that > > the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM) > > and a 15" NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems > > and I have seen that the Matrox Millenium-II is not compatible with > > XFree86, even if the Millenium and Mystique are. I tried using > > "Unsupported VGA card" and "Standard VGA monitor"; the tests of the X > > server work fine, but when I load xdm, the computer freezes. Can anyone > > help? Thanks. > > you card is supported (partially at least) by Xfree86-3.1.1 release. > Debian doesn't have this release in stable. I would suggest you > to install debian packages for xserver-svga and -vga16, download > only SVGA server from xfree86 site and copy it over existing server > installed by debian package in /usr/X11R6/bin/. Fire up XF86Setup > and configure the server for your card.
That solution will certainly not work like you say it. First libc6 would have to be installed. Before that, libc5 would have to be upgraded to 'unstable'. And before that, lsdo would have to be upgraded to 'unstable'. Also, locales would have to be upgraded and localebin and wg15-locale would have to be removed. And all *-dev packages would have to be removed and replaced by the ones from 'unstable'. And it would become tricky to build libc5-based programs. You see, you cannot upgrade only a few packages to 'unstable' anymore, because of the libc5 to libc6 transition that is going on. Read the 'libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO', regularly posted on this list, for all the info. Of course, there is another solution. Just download the server from ftp.xfree86.org or one of its mirrors. The files in ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.1/binaries/Linux-ix86/ are compiled against libc5. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
