Tnx to all who responded for the great info, but after reading the 
various posts in detail and fighting with two debian installs
(one stock unstable, one knoppix) I've decided to stick to "good old"
RedHat. I'm sure if I had the time to actually dig into it, I could 
master how to use apt, dselect, and other tools to fine-tune my
system, but I don't have that kind of time to experiment at the moment.

/me wonders if O'reilley has considered publishing a Debian book...

~Deepak

On Aug 07 2003, at 22:10, Deepak Saxena was caught saying:
> 
> Warning: I'm a complete debian newbie
> 
> I just installed Knoppix on my system and I've run into a
> slight situation I'm not sure how to deal with. 
> 
> I've got an ATI Radeon9000 and to get full usage out of it,
> I need to install the ATI binary drivers. These are available
> in XFree 4.1.x and 4.2.x flavors.  Knoppix by default ships
> with XFree 4.3.0, so this means the driver won't load. I need
> to move to XFree 4.2.0 and was wondering if there is a way 
> to force installation of specific version of package with apt-get?
> 
> Tnx,
> ~Deepak
> 
> 
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