any way to use deprecated Xorg servers?

[Pallidus]

I understand this is an unorthodox thing to ask, not to mention newbish but I have no idea if this is even possible...

being that I was finally able to find a donatee (sp?) for the old laptops that I did not want to trash, I am reticent to give them away as they are (xp, sp2 or 3 can't remember), as the last thing I want is to create data security problems to good kind people.

Neither would it be kosher to give them away with a distro from 2009... then I started wondering that if somehow I was able to find the last xorg version that used uxa for radeon I could probably try and waste a couple of hours trying to get debian7 to work with it.

or is this not even a possibility?

[alanc]

The source code for every X server release from the past 25 years is still available from http://www.x.org/releases/ so it should be possible, may just be a lot of effort to find and build the right combination of pieces. The Debian repositories should have all their old package sources and versions as well.

[Pallidus]

Thanks for the reply, building from source would require more effort and time that I am willing to put in for charity... but using debian seems to be a good solution. I will attempt to search xorg release logs to see exactly when they switched from xaa to exa, thus rendering first generations of radeons unusable.