Radeon 9600 on Sarge
Ok, well I'm a newbie at linux.
I have installed Sarge and have that up and running. Unfortunately, I have a Radeon 9600 video card which is not currenly supported (I found this out after attempting to install and run x-window-system). I have found a .deb package for my video card, however, it requires xserver-xfree86 version 4.3 or above. The version I have is 4.1, and I can't figure out how to upgrade it. when I run apt-get, I get a message that says I have the newest version. If anyone has had any problems with Radeon video cards, could you please post your step by step instructions, or if anyone has any ideas or tips. Thank you very much! |
sarge atm has XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1
run apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade that will upgrade everything to the latest "testing" i took my radeon 9200 back because of the crap linux support, but i did get it working well before i did this site helped, its for the 9200 but shoudl work for you http://www.desktop-linux.net/ati.htm |
thanks cadj,
I'm attempting to go through those instructions, however I am getting stuck on installing alien (to convert the rpm to deb) I run: apt-get install alien but I get the error: alien: Depends: debhelper (>=3) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken Packages Then I run: apt-get install debhelper: dephelper: Depends: debconf-utils but it is not going to be installed E: Broken Packages Then I run: apt-get install debconf-utils: debconf-utils: Depends: debconf (>= 0.9.59) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken Packages Finally: apt-get install debconf debconf is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded Is there anyway to force an upgrade? Or any other ideas around this? Thanks again |
did u do the apt-get dist-upgrade?
if u have i cant really think of anythin to help, mayb someone else can tho |
I tried to do the apt-get dist-upgrade, but got the following error message:
Unpacking fileutils (from .../fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/bin/chgrp', which is also in package coreutils dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any ideas? (I'm thinking about trying a different disto, maybe Mandrake or Suse?) |
ok you need to get midnight commander if you dont already have it
apt-get install mc run mc and navigate to /etc/apt/sources.list edit sources (F4) in there youll see your cd first, put a # infront of this line to comment it out you shoould have a few xources listed here. comment all of them out but one the one you leave should start with deb , not deb-src after the site in that line itll say stable contrib non us, whatever you selected when you added this well just change stable to testing, press f10 to exit, say yes to the change and then run apt-get update try it then afterwords, you should neaten up your apt list, i usually keep 2 sets of sources and security updates i have a stable set and a testing set. leave the testing set commented out untill you come across a time when you need to use it like this i found when looking for something in testing its best to comment out EVERYTING else just to be sure and remember you probably moved to linux so that you can build and customize your machine just how you like it. learning exploring and running into trouble is gonna happen, but your doing the right thing, asking questioins and sticking with it, dont move to suse or mandrake, when all is said and done the skills your learning will be a great reward. |
Well, I hate to say it, but I switched to Mandrake 10. When I have more time, I'll try Debain again as I would like to completely customize my install. But for now, just to get something up and running, Mandrake worked like a charm. Thanks to everyone for all of your help
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For when you decide to give it another try:
make /etc/apt/sources.list read like the following (subsitute your preferred mirror host for ftp.de.debian.org) Code:
# official stable Code:
APT::Cache-Limit 10485760; Finally, if it doesn't yet exist, create /etc/apt/preferences like this: Code:
Explanation: see http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html You can now install from any of the official releases. Just remember to run 'apt-get update' before your first install of testing/unstable on any given day. Use the '-t' flag with 'install' to indicate the release you want to use. This will automatically add/upgrade the packages required by whatever you're trying to install. So: 'apt-get -t testing install xserver-xfree86' grabs XFree86 4.3.x and all the packages that need to be upgraded |
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