On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, John Holland wrote: > Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is > there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of > stable and unstable. > Thanks,
I've been using Xfree-4.3 for awhile (first Daniel Stone's packages and now 4.3.0-0pre1v4 from experimental) without any serious problems... on-the-fly resolution switching (CTRL-ALT-+|-) messes up the display and X needs to be restarted to fix it, SDL apps cause the monitor to go into standby mode (switch to text then back to X to fix it). To install you will need to: 1) add experimental to your sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free 2) explicitly tell apt you want to fetch from experimental, either: # apt-get -t experimental install ... or --- /etc/apt/sources.list --- APT::Default-Release "experimental"; --- The sources.list method is a must if you use dselect, and you probably want to do an update/upgrade sans experimental immediately before updating with experimental so that you can put everything else in experimental on hold. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
