virtanen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you need > > is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you trouble > > while doing dpkg -i there is no advice available to see, what kind of > packages are needed to solve dependency problems... It is just telling you > that this won't do...
Doing dpkg -i <package> should give you meaningful error messages. > Anyway, I tried to install xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 (once again). To see, > if it is possible to find out what to do for it. > > This time I had again a sudden power-shut-down. While the machine just > announced 'unpacking...' (so there is something else besides that > 'Windows-button'.) > > Now the complete system is again broken, no kernel or X starting. No > dependency problems either. > > Going home. Got enough for today. Sorry for your bad experience. I would not have attempted to install potato packages on slink (unless you know what you're doing and can work around packaging bugs in unstable). The netgod stuff I pointed to is built for slink. I use it on my G200 at home and my Diamond Viper (TNT-based) at work with _no_ problems. Peter
