Subject: Re: video drivers?
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 14:54:59 MDT
Hi Mari,
The best bet is to get this from a YDL RPM - for YDL 1.2.1 the file you want
was supplied by ncurses-5.0-9.ppc.rpm. With YDL 2, first make sure that the
ncurses package from that distro is installed. If all else fails, search
for ncurses on rpmfind.net.
Iain
on 30/6/01 8:09 pm, Mari Masuda at mari@SDF.lonestar.org wrote:
> 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
>>
>
> Thanks for the tip Iain. I was able to make XFree86 4.1 and edit the
> host.def file so the ATI driver gets compiled, but now when I try 'startx'
> it dies with the following error message:
>
> xterm: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot load
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Where do I get libncurses.so.4? Thanks.
>
> Mari
>
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