[Wolves] XFree86 3.3.6

[James Turner]

On Saturday 31 Dec 2005 15:14, Peter Cannon wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Hope you all had a good Christmas?

Yes, very good thank you. Happy New Year to all too.

> Any ideas where I can get these from for Woody but they will need to be
> XFree86 3.3.6 I've had a look on the net but they all seem to be updated to
> Sarge which is no good as the machine wont support the latest XFree86 4.

I'm not a Debian user myself, but can't you "just" add the location of the 
Woody packages to /etc/apt/sources.list then install them with apt-get? (I 
put "just" in quotes in case there is some sort of gotcha that I don't know 
about which makes it really difficult and complicated)

The file:

http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages

lists the packages that make up Woody, and both XFree86 versions 3.3.6 and 
4.1.0 appear in the list so things look hopeful. I note in your list of 
required packages:

> # apt-get install xserver-xfree86

This is the XFree86 4.1.0 server, which has a modular architecture supporting 
multiple graphics card/chip types. Under Version 3.3.6 you had a different X 
sever binary for each different type of graphics card, the Debian package for 
each being having a name of the form xserver-<card-name>. I suggest browsing 
the package list and figuring out which one you need.

Once you apt-get the X server it should pull down appropriate versions of any 
dependant libraries, etc, which should account for a big chunk of your list 
of packages. I note you have two terminal emulators listed (xterm and rxvt) - 
this strikes me as bordering on the decadent. :)

As a matter of interest, what graphics card/chip is this for? If your card or 
its underlying graphics chip type isn't explicitly listed in the descriptions 
of any of the packages, try xserver-svga for generic, unaccelerated SVGA 
support, or even xserver-vga16 if you get *REALLY* desperate!

Regards,

James