mixing slink and potato is probably a bad idea. if you want slink, use slink and upgrade your X by adding the following line in /etc/apt/soruces.list :
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main then run apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade matrox g400 works fine with the update i got several slink machines with g400s in em. at this point i would reccomend wiping out the system and installing slink. nate On 12 Jan 2000, Alex Schuster wrote: wonko >Hi there! wonko > wonko >I have installed Debian on my new PC, but I just cannot get it to run wonko >properly. wonko > wonko >I got the CD images for the stable Debian from the net and created two wonko >bootable CDs which I used to install. This basic installation worked wonko >fine. But I could not set up the Xserver because my Matrox G400 video wonko >card is too new. Okay, I got the Xserver-SVGA from the potato wonko >directory and tried to install it. Which didn't work, because I also wonko >need Xserver-Common and a new libc6. I got those, but I still needed a wonko >libz1. Which I didn't find anywhere, but it seems the zlib was meant wonko >here. Anyway, the next problem was a too old ldso, so I got it, too. wonko >Now dselect complained that it needs a newer apt. wonko > wonko >Oh, well. What else would I need? I decided to get the complete potato wonko >distribution. So ftp'ed all binaries (except for the devel directory, wonko >which is another 420 MB) and burnt the stuff onto five CDs. Then I wonko >copied them to my hard disk and let dselect check it out. Well, it wonko >still wanted the new apt, I wonder why it complains here because I wonko >wanted to install all the new stuff, including apt. I installed it wonko >manually via dpkg --install, along with some other libraries. Still wonko >dselect didn't work. I also tried to use apt als source for dselect wonko >(instead of a mounted file system), but only got a huge list of wonko >missing packages. For example, I need libpgperl_6.5.3-7, but I have wonko >libpgperl_6.5.3-8. Why is it a problem to have a newer version?? wonko > wonko >I just don't know what's wrong with my system. Maybe I messed things wonko >up while playing with dselect, so I might try to reinstall Debian, wonko >using only the necessary packages, not everything. wonko > wonko >Thanks for reading, wonko > wonko > Alex wonko >-- wonko > Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available wonko > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wonko > wonko > wonko >-- wonko >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null wonko > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:20am up 145 days, 23:20, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.33, 0.29
