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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Need an older xorg

Can anyone direct me to a package for xorg 6.7?  I find that with 6.8 I get frequent freezes that can only be fixed with a reboot - especially on KDE.

6.7 didn't seem to have this problem...

Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: Need an older xorg

you will get a lot more trouble with an older xorg, try xfree instead.

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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: Need an older xorg

Why will a previous xorg cause me problems?  I mean, it worked before...

Blaasvis

Member

Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: Need an older xorg

no libXdamage and all, we will not support any older xorg.
xfree86 has been patched to add all extensions xorg 6.8.0 added.
any application using these extensions will stop working

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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: Need an older xorg

trouble is... I don't know how to get my ATI card working with xfree86 anymore - it's been so long since I've done it...

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Need an older xorg

Xorg 6.7.0 == XFree86 4.4.0 prerelease. So installation instructions are almost exactly the same. Only the Xorg stuff is called X in xfree86. The configfile is called XF86Config-4 instead of Xorg.conf.

qwerty

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Registered: 2004-12-17

Posts: 183

Re: Need an older xorg

I think he would say that ATI accellerated drivers only run either on Xfree 4.3 or on xorg 6.7.1...

phunni: I've had the same problem here, actually i'm using xorg 6.7.1, you can download it from:
      ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/incoming
but i you want to use it you have to keep the old gtk2 and libglade, otherwise (almost) all your gtk2 apps will not works anymore.

(look at my post "trouble upgrading to gtk2-2.6.0" in here)