On 24-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i'm going to install 6.0 on a dell inspiron 7000 today. my understanding
> from the list is that XFree won't work but Accelerated X will.
> i have a copy of AccelX so that is not a problem. my question is, which X
> related packages should i NOT install from the suse distribution?
> or perhaps, what is the correct way to install AccelX ontop of the suse
> install. thanks!
It is not quite true that the XFree Mach64 server won't work,
a patched version does! See: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
You say you have the AccelX server but you actually you need the
Accelerated-X LAPTOP Display Server, and then the Inspiron 7000 version
of the ATI Rage 3D Pro LT driver, that is to say
you have to download L4102.013.tar.gz from their ftp update site.
To install the the AccelX server on SuSE 6.0 you can do a normal install
of the XFree packages and Mach64 but do not probe or configure anything!
(you need the XFree stuff but not the actual driver and this is a brute
force way of getting past this hurdle. I can't give a more elegant approach
because I can't remember how the install goes in SuSE).
Then install AccelX as described in their manual, but only do a 'minimal'
install as AccelX is still libc5! You configure with the AccelX configure
facilities.
If you want you can now remove the XFree Mach64 server.
Alexander
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