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Re: AGP Video cards
guy keren writes:
> > You just the server from 3.3.3.1,you can use everything else from the
> > X that's available for Debian. I've done it countless times. Just
> > download the binary server for your card from ftp.xfree86.org or a
> > mirror, and replace the one you have with it.
>
> one warning about this:
> i've done the same (taking a current 3.3.3.1 X server for mach64 for an
> old linux system - redhat 4.2) and encountered one problem - the X server
> refused to run when SUID root, claiming for this to be a security problem,
> and that Xwrapper should be used.
Just a quick note about this -- Debian uses a wrapper installed as
/usr/X11R6/bin/X at least since version 2.0, so if you're installing a
new server on a Debian system that is 2.0 or newer, you will have no
problems.
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