Updating X in Debian

[Dave2001]

Hey Guys !

In the next days iam getting my new graphics card , a geforce 2 MX together with a total new system . And iam planning to use Debian again . So anyway i would have to install it all new again . At the moment iam running stable but i want to use Xfree86 4.x . The stable version only comes with Xfree 3.3.6 . So i would have to update it . Iam trying it now already with an other Debian system . But it doesnt seem to work . I added some testing sources to my sources.list and uncommented the stable ones . Then i issued " apt-get install task-x-window-system" and the same with a "core" in the end . But it always says that iam having already the actual ones . How can that be ? And how can i resolve this issue ?

David :confused:

[godot]

Are you trying to get the stable packages? Let's see your /etc/apt/sources.list file and the output when you type
dpkg -l task-x-window-system-core

then i can try to help

[pbharris]

hello,
i just grabbed teh bianoes from xfree86.org - installed them and and then installe dNVidia drivers. worked like a charm

[bdl]

Originally posted by pbharris:
<STRONG>hello,
i just grabbed teh bianoes from xfree86.org - installed them and and then installe dNVidia drivers. worked like a charm</STRONG>

Man, I cant remember the last time I grabbed teh bianoes....what a great time that was!!


Sorry, couldnt resist! ;)

[Dave2001]

Ok i tryd the dpkg thingi ..... but it said failed to read archive "task-...." No such file or directory

Which binarys should i grab then from the xfree server ?

David