Hi, I'm not sure if this is a problem with my own scripts (very likely), or with the book, or just a compatability issue for particular drivers.
In my builds of xorg (in /usr) I get a few m4 files installed - xtrans.m4 (xtrans), xorgversion.m4 (util-macros), xaw.m4 (libXaw), fontutil.m4 (font-util), xorg-server.m4 (xorg-server). The odd thing is that these are all in /usr/lib/aclocal - everything else puts m4 files in /usr/share/aclocal. The only reason I even noticed is that my latest box uses a via unichrome for its vga. The via driver from xorg doesn't see the hardware, so I tried the unichrome driver from sourceforge. This is built by running ./autogen.sh to build and run configure. Unfortunately, it needs the xorg-server.m4 file to do this. My quick and dirty fix was to symlink to xorg's m4 files from /usr/share/aclocal. FWIW, the unichrome driver overwrites xorg-via's via_drv library but leaves libviaXvMC and the via.4 manpage untouched (if you already installed them). It also gives a message to say it doesn't support my particular hardware (3344, unichrome 'pro' I think) :-( Further searching brought me to openchrome - nice website, but the latest snapshot is from last March. Fortunately, an svn checkout revealed the project is still active and shows I probably need a recent version for DDR2 533 memory. The good news is that the svn trunk works for me - again it provides its own via_drv, but also libviaXvMC and via.4. The build method is the same as for unichrome (it was branched from it) so I guess it also used the m4 file. And it works for me. :-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
