Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-13 Thread Joshua Lee
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:09:15PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > I upgraded. It works fine, though the upgrade wasn't entirely smooth, and > I only got it working by restoring the previous config, so having a backup > is clearly important. There were some font differences, but they were > minor

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread David Luff
On 11/12/02 at 11:01 PM Colin Watson wrote: >> My question is which package to specify to basically install XFree86 and >> its dependencies? > >x-window-system is there for that purpose. If you just want the bare >bones so that you can replace the components of x-window-system with >alternatives, y

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:31:12PM +, David Luff wrote: > There seem to be dozens of X related packages, and I'm a bit confused over > which to apt-get. I'm mostly on Woody but planning to pull in XFree86 4.2 > using apt-get -t testing install ?.deb > > My question is which package to specify

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread David Luff
On 11/12/02 at 9:17 PM Rob Weir wrote: >On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:19:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other >> than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, >> are there any other preparations that I should make bef

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:19:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other > than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, > are there any other preparations that I should make before taking > the upgrade plunge? No Debian p

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On 11 Nov 2002 17:43:04 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were these the only 2 problems? The only significant ones. I had a problem with the monitor not powering down, which it had done before, but that was easily solved - though I'm not sure why I had the problem at all since I wa

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 17:09, Richard Kimber wrote: > On 11 Nov 2002 16:19:17 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other > > than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, > > are there any other pre

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On 11 Nov 2002 16:19:17 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other > than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, > are there any other preparations that I should make before taking > the upgrade plunge?

Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Moments ago, I did: # apt-get update # apt-get -s -u -t testing upgrade There, I saw that, among the 42 packages to be upgraded since I last did "apt-get -u -t testing upgrade" on 01-Nov, XFree 4.2.1-3 has been migrated down to sarge. Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Oth