Subject: [Fwd: X windows on a G4 AGP]
From: David Salinas (rdsalinas@home.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 06:55:29 MDT
Vance, yes. Same problems here. No fddev driver among other errors.
David -
Vance wrote:
> Actually every install I've done ( Red Hat 6.2, 6.1, Intel and YDL 1.2 on a
> G3 all running XFree86 3.X ) with the exception of my G4 running XFree86
> 4.0 on yd 1.2, went almost too easy, almost Mac OS easy. Just wondering if
> anybody else had XFree86 4.0 problems, problems included multiple RPM
> dependecy issues during the manual RPM install, all inacurate and the
> "/dev/dsp no such device" error I mentioned previously.
>
>
attached mail follows:
Michael Long wrote:
> David Salinas wrote:
>
> > Why do I keep getting this error when I try and install/upgrade XFree86
> > 4.0?
> > I thought XFree86 was part of the XFree86-4.0-0.16c.ppc.rpm package,
> > which complains about needing I might add:
> >
> > [root@localhost]# rpm -Uvh XFree86-4.0-0.16c.ppc.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > XFree86-xfs = 4.0 is needed by XFree86-4.0-0.16c
> > XFree86-libs = 4.0 is needed by XFree86-4.0-0.16c
> > libXaw.so.7 is needed by XFree86-4.0-0.16c
> > libXfont.so.1 is needed by XFree86-4.0-0.16c
> >
> > [root@localhost]# rpm -i XFree86-Xnest-4.0-0.16c.ppc.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > XFree86 = 4.0 is needed by XFree86-Xnest-4.0-0.16c
> > libXfont.so.1 is needed by XFree86-Xnest-4.0-0.16c
>
> I got the same message when I tried to install xf4. I decided it's
> because the howarth site for xf4 doesn't provide the fbdev file among the
> Xfree86 4.0 rpm's. Let me know if that is indeed the problem, I'll watch
> for a complete list of files for xf4ppc. Try to build from source and
> install.
> Mike
That's exactly the problem. No rbdev, except of course the older one.
David -
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