xfree86 4.0 and Debian

Samuel Morales Jr. sonofrage at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 29 17:49:34 EST 2001


Some video cards that were not supported in 3.3.6 are
supported in 4 and also some cards that didnt have 3D
acceleration not have it.


--- Lasse Saarinen <kumiorava at crosswinds.net> wrote:
> Hmmm... XF86 4. So it's reasonably useable by now?
> Are there any good 
> reasons to switch to it unless you own a steamy new
> video card or do 
> dual-head? Anybody have more experience with it? I
> think I tried it out 
> once, but that was with SuSE 6.3 a long time ago,
> and the distro didn't 
> like that version on XF86 4 at all. Maby it's time
> to give it another 
> shot...
> 
>     - Lasse
> 
> > I'm experimenting with Debian again (Storm Linux
> > actually) and I also got new video card that is
> only
> > supported by xfree86 4.0 so I was wondering if
> anyone
> > knows how I can install it b/c I haven't been able
> to
> > find debs for it. Also, do I have to uninstall
> 3.3.6
> > first?
> > 
> > ~Sam
> > 
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