Subject: XFree86 4.1 bad
From: Jason Gan (jason@hspace.net)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 17:18:31 MDT
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
> Maybe you should build the latest XFree86 4.1 - it's better for me
> (9600/200, Rage Orion) than earlier versions. First check whether your
> video card is supported on the XFree86 web site here:
>
> http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status.html
>
> The build is fairly straightforward but you need to make sure X is
> configured to build the device driver you need. I posted my experience to
> the list.
>
> Iain
>
The build is not very straightforward. I attempted to install it over my
system and when trying to xconfig (last step), it dumped the core. Yellow
Dog Linux does not have libncurses.so.4, so I suppose I shouldn't have tried
to install something that I knew would fail.
Unfortunately I don't have a backup, and since I don't have a user manual
(Yellow Dog only provided an installation guide), I don't know how to use
the system from the console.
So I have been trying to reinstall Linux from the original CD, and now I
have to try to download all the software to get it back to the state where I
want it. Turns out that the Everything installation takes about 1hr on my
400MHz G4. (The installation crashed twice, and I thought it was taking more
than 3hrs to install but Linux was actually frozen.)
I have yet to figure out how yup update works, as there is no user manual or
web site to show me how it works. There is not much confidence in the
system, is there.
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