In reply to "tourettes", thanks for the pointer. I checked and yes I did type in "radeon" not "radion". Ya, I guess that wasn't a very good place for a typo
Thanks for catching it.
In reply to "digitalturbulence": I am running the stable version not the testing version.
I looked into the bios settings as "tourettes" suggested and discovered that there was no entry for disabling the on board VGA with my BIOS version. bummer.
My current version of xserver-xfree86 is 4.1.0-16 and I think I should be using version 4.2.1-6 so I've been trying to upgrade.
The internet connection on my linux compter is flaky at the moment (I'm going to tackle this after my xserver works), so I downloaded the
xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-6.deb
package from the web (using another computer) and copied it to a newly created /debs directory on my hard drive.
I thought it would be simple, but I can't seem to use apt or dpkg or dselect to install and upgrade my xserver from a local file! Darn!
I was trying to follow the APT-HOWTO (section 2.2 = How to use APT locally), but it's really unclear. At a crucial point in the document it states "To use the packages, finally add: deb file:/root debs/ After that just use the APT commands as usual." Pardon? add that text to what? A command? A file? ... confusing. I guess it wasn't written for newbies or maybe I'm missing something obvious. (I don't mean to dis the howto, since it was really considerate of someone to write it... section 2.2 just seemed a bit incomplete, that's all).
Okay, now for my question. The .deb file (the xserver update) is just sitting in the directory /debs on my hardrive. Could someone please list what commands I need to run on it to install the package? Then I can report whether the newer xserver version fixes the video driver problem.
Frustratingly yours,
Grasshopper.
