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playdafunkimuzic

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Registered: 2008-10-25

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Need to either downgrade X or downgrade video drivers, patching help

Hi,

I'm using a matrox g450 which worked in the older version of X server..1.4. Is there a way to downgrade back to this version of X or the drivers.

I see this on an ubuntu bug list https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214
but I can't seem to figure out how to apply the patches there. help, please!

playdafunkimuzic

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Registered: 2008-10-25

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Re: Need to either downgrade X or downgrade video drivers, patching help

anyone?

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: Need to either downgrade X or downgrade video drivers, patching help

downgrading packages info on the wiki

playdafunkimuzic

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Registered: 2008-10-25

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Re: Need to either downgrade X or downgrade video drivers, patching help

it's a fresh install so i have none of the packages on my machine, i found much older packages in a repository on the site. so am i supposed to have it install each individual file in the xorg category?

mcmillan

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Re: Need to either downgrade X or downgrade video drivers, patching help

If you're looking for xorg-server 1.4 you'll need much older packages, since the switch occurred a while back. You might try just downgrading xorg-server, but I would be surprised if you'll have to do the same for most of the packages in xorg to get it to work.