a hopefully simple question

[Kevin Brown]

Does woody come with XFree86 4.0+ ?

robert jorgenson wrote:
> 
> Okay it all installed fine, it didn't reckognize my windows partition and
> set lilo up for it, but i figured it out. Now i am having problems getting
> XFree86 to work. I am using the radeon 7000 card, and after looking through
> the hardware howto on linuxdoc.org it said that radeon agp cards use the
> radeon driver for x 4.x and not supported in 3.x. I am running debian
> woody, i ran "apt-get install x-windows-core-system"(not sure if thats the
> exact package name i forgot) and after that was done i ran "X -configure"
> and tested the file it threw at me. It said something about there not being
> a pointer registered. I would have kept going but i am sooooooo tired :) If
> anyone has any tips/advice/whatever that might help i am gonna give this
> another shot tommorow night.
> 
> At 10:41 PM 5/8/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 22:05, robert jorgenson wrote:
> > > Okay i have a windows box with an 18GB hard drive, it has a 5gb windows
> > > partition and i wanted to install debian on the rest. Ive never installed
> > > linux on a box that had windows on it, or any other operating system for
> > > that matter. Is there anything i should know before doing this besides
> > > backup? Like a special lilo configuration(or whatever debian uses) or
> > > anythign like that? I have wanted to install debian for a long time but
> > > havent had the chance, now i got the space and the cd's and just need some
> > > advice :)
> > >
> >----
> >My experience is with redhat / little mandrake & suse
> >
> >install away - leave the winders partition alone - as long as this 18G
> >hd is master device on primary controller, debian shouldn't bother it (I
> >believe that is would use grub in favor of lilo and it should offer dual
> >boot.
> >
> >Craig
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