I just installed 3.3.3 on my (Slakware 3.5) laptop. I saw that there were
more binary files than I wanted to download, so I grabbed the
3.3.2-3.3.3.diff file from the XFree site, since I had the 3.3.2 source
files on CD. This is a 500k+ file and much smaller than all the binary
files. (I guess if you have access to a high speed 'net connection,
getting the binaries might be a more attractive option.)
Put the diff file in the top level XFree86 source directory and run
gzip -d < name-of-diff-file | patch -p0 -E
You need to read the doc files in the 3.3.2 source. Most importantly I
think is the BUILD doc . You should find this as
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/BUILD. There isn't that much to do;
mainly just copy one Linux specific config file to a name called site.def
- it's in the BUILD file. There is a trade off for this method besides
the hassle of doing the patch and reading the docs: compile time on my
(admittedly not lightning-fast P133 laptop) was around 7 hours! XFree86
is amazingly complex, IMO. It gives one a perspective on how well
organized the consortium group is with their work.
Doing this work did allow me to move from the proprietary Xaccel server to
Xfree - 3.3.3 is the first Xfree version to support the Neomagic chip.
Good luck
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Chris Martin wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I have been having problems with my display, and I found something on the
>XFree86.org page indicating that I needed to install 3.3.3 (I have 3.3.2
>which came with SuSE 5.3). So, I go to the SuSE FTP site and find the
>right directory, but there is tons of stuff in there. I am a Linux
>novice, slowly learning, but I don't know where to start. How do I know
>what to grab, and then what? THere must be documetnation from SuSE on
>what to do. . .right?
>
>
>Chris
>
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