On Sunday 09 March 2003 5:54 pm, David Herman wrote:
I just reverted to 4.2.0 yesterday, took all day as I think I made a mistake early on (so my howto would not be the prefered method).
But after a full day re-installing, getting kde3.1 functional again, re-installing open office, and re-building my kernel I once again can play tux racer on my ati radeon 7500.
life is good
Here's a copy of Currie Sylvanus' message saying how he did it. Maybe one of
you brave souls will try it and let us know how well it works. I am in the
process of writing up my little howto for those of us who are trying to
extricate that nasty snake from our buttocks! Will post it here in a bit.
Sorry for the delay, I had to work today.
Curries' message:
I have successfully upgraded to Xfree86-4.3 over the weekend.
First I installed apt4rpm as I only have a dial-up connection and apt will
restart broken downloads.
Then I used the latest "sources" file and commented out the "base" entry
I then ran:
* "apt-get update"
* "apt-get -f install"
to make sure everything was hunky-dory.
Then:
* "SuSEconfig"
After this, "apt-get -s Xfree86" suggested that a lot of packages would be
removed
So I downloaded all (except DRI) the rpms from
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/Xfree86/Xfree86-4.3/suse81/