I just tried to upgrade my "potato" box with XFree86 from "unstable." Bad idea?
This yields Segmentation Fault when I run XF86Setup. Mildly chaotic "update" process, since I was a bit confused about the Deb packages to get. I started with: xfree86-common x-window-system-core xserver-common .. at which point XF86Setup still ran, but showed no video boards to select from. Then I went and got: xserver-svga xserver-xfree86 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnome-perl // and finally: x-window-system .. which is probably where I should have started. This is on top of a plain vanilla 2.2r3 potato distro (does it matter?) The "old" 3.3.6 XFree86 worked just fine, but not on my new Matrox G-450 board. Oddly enough, running xdm or startx produces a valiant try... there, the report is: (EE) No devices detected Fatal server error: no screens found So my questions are: 1. Was it dumb to install XF86 4.1 on top of a 2.2r3 base (kernel 2.2.18pre21) ? 2. Is it possible that XF86Setup itself was somehow not updated? 3. Which deb contains XF86Setup? Danged if I can figure it out... 4. What's the minimim base for running XF86 version 4.1.0-9? Or is "apt-get" supposed to deal with such dependencies? 5. Suggestions on where to go from here... Whew! Many thanks in advance. I'm way over my head here, I guess <g>. rafe b.
