I just tried to upgrade my "potato" box with XFree86 from "unstable." Bad idea?
Yes!
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
That is version 3.3.6-39
xserver-xfree86 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnome-perl // and finally: x-window-system
version 4.1.x
.. which is probably where I should have started.
You have a mixture of 3.3.6 and 4.1 packages on your system
So my questions are: 1. Was it dumb to install XF86 4.1 on top of a 2.2r3 base (kernel 2.2.18pre21) ?
No but the wrong way of doing. Looks like you didn't even have a look on the packeges numbers.
2. Is it possible that XF86Setup itself was somehow not updated?
XF86Setup is for 3.3.x
4. What's the minimim base for running XF86 version 4.1.0-9? Or is "apt-get" supposed to deal with such dependencies?
apt-get is your choice. Go to http://people.debian.org/~bunk/ and read the instructions on how to install XF4 on potato with apt-get.
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. Frank --
