Bill Kalebaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze wrote: > >>You probably don't want a full XFree86 4.3 install, just the X server >>for hardware support. On my laptop, I downloaded the Xxserv.tgz and >>Xmod.tgz binary tarballs from xfree86.org, unpacked them in >>/usr/local, repointed /etc/X11/X at /usr/local/bin/XFree86, and edited >>the XF86Config file appropriately. It looks like I still have the >>Debian xserver-xfree86 package installed, but I don't really use it. >> > I tried following your instructions to the letter, now X will not come > up, had to re point to /user/X11R6/bin. > What did you change in the XF86Config-4 file ????
It looks like the only substantive change was changing ModulePath from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules to /usr/local/lib/modules. [And having used this setup successfully from a couple of months, I switched to the packages in Debian experimental, and they seem to work fine. Installing xlibmesa-dri, also out of experimental, seems to have given me direct rendering support vs. the modules in the 2.4.23 kernel; with some hacking I was able to build xlibmesa-drm-src, but I'm not actually using it. This would seem to suggest that there's another tarball from xfree86.org you'd need for this functionality.] -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
