[UFO Chicago] Debian XFree86

[Nate Riffe]

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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ian Bicking wrote:

> Hi guys.
>
> I just updated my Debian unstable computer, and behold, it is indeed
> unstable.  The ol' missing fixed font issue.  What am I supposed to do
> with that?
>
> But then, I also thought, while I'm fucking around with this stuff,
> why not go for the latest version of X.  But I really can't figure out
> what packages are involved in XFree v4 -- there's xserver-common-v3,
> which is presumably version 3, and xserver-common, which is presumably
> version 4, but xserver-svga seems to only be for v3... but maybe
> there's some totally new setup for v4?

Yes, totally new setup.  XFree86 4 got rid of all the different servers
for different hardware and now has a single xserver that loads the
appropriate driver, and the server is simply called XFree86.  The configs
are really different, too.

For future reference, XFree86 4.1 is also in Debian testing.  The main
packages are:

xfree86-common xserver-xfree86 xserver-common xlibs xbase-clients xfont-*

I would assume they have the same names in unstable, but I don't know that
for a fact.

>
> Thanks,
>   Ian
>
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