In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I'm still having problems with my ATI card. I know it's worked fine under > XFree86 4.2, but Woody has X 4.1. How can I upgrade to X 4.2 w/out upgrading > anything else or moving to unstable? > > Hal > >
This is not generally a good idea, but I just did this on my machine because I needed 4.2 as well. I went to /etc/apt/sources.list and changed 'woody' to 'testing' in the address for the ordinary stuff. Then I did 'apt-get' update' and 'apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common' I was pleased to see that I did not have a huge amount of stuff to be changed; so I said 'Y' when it asked if I wanted it and that was that. After it was installed, I immediately changed sources.list back and ran 'apt-get update' again so that I wouldn't forget and do a complete upgrade to testing next time around. I had put in a new video card; so I reconfigured X after this process. I did a similar thing back when I had potato and ended up with a huge upgrade and a big mess. I was new to Debian then; so it's hard telling what I really did. I was using dselect. I came back to try Debian again about a year later. <smile> -- Anita GnuPG key: 1024D/9EDAC910 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
