Subject: Re: FrankenX: halfway between 4.01 and 3.3.6, need evil scientist
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 09:24:56 MST
phil,
stop by irc again late night and i'll try to give you a hand.
charles
On this day, Thu, 02 Nov 2000, philippe tapon wrote:
> hello
>
> iMac DV SE (1999)
> 2.4.0-test10
> X 3.3.6 -> 4.01
>
> I followed the instructions for downloading, compiling, and installing X
> 4.01. (You can find them at the imaclinux and the linuxppc.org sites.
> They agreed on the basics.) The compile was relatively swift (2 hours?)
> and aside from a few warnings and errors, which did not halt it,
> terminated in a way that made me confident it would work. I followed
> the advice given by AArthur and backed up X 3.3.6 into a new directory,
> X11R6.3. The installation of X 4 went fine.
> So! When I took a deep breath and typed startx at the console, I was
> surprised to hear that the symbolic link, @X, in the /etc/X11 directory,
> was not pointing at anything. I did a search through the documentation
> and through the articles: apparently this problem doesn't crop up often,
> and I couldn't find an answer. I pulled out X 336 out of cryogenic
> hibernation, put the old XF86Config in place, fired X up, but it balked;
> I ran XConfigurator again, knowing that now it was back on the PATH, and
> it gave me the nyah-nyah-nyah infamous font error message. Fine. I
> commented out the unix :-1 line in XF86Config and booted it up again . .
> . and it took me into X Window. I like X Window, it's rather spartan,
> bbut I can't get along without KDE; I just don't know that many
> commands. Would someone please tell me what happened and how I can
> finish the installation of X 4.01? I'd be very grateful.
>
> peace
>
> philippe
>
>
>
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