On 3/1/07, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Am trying to install XFree86 on my P-III laptop. I have installed it before and have done this once now on top of my new lfs-svn-020070217. The following questions: First Question: I used the default installation instructions as given in the Book (Version: blfs-svn-20070219). While the xfree86 installed OK, it did not create the directory '/usr/X11R6' by default. The Book does assume the creation of '/usr/X11' , by default, as is evident from the following statement from the BOOK: "If you installed XFree86 into the default prefix, /usr/X11R6, make these symlinks to work around some applications which look for things in the wrong place. As root: ln -v -s ../X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 && ln -v -s ../X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 && ln -v -s ../X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11"
As you installed XFree in /usr, above commands are not needed. Then further down it says:
"If you installed XFree86 with the prefix /usr, omit /X11R6 from the paths. As root:" It is not clear to me how to install XFree86 into '/usr/X11R6' or for that matter into '/usr'. In my case it installed all executables into '/usr/bin' and libs and headers into '/usr/lib/X11' and '/usr/include/X11'
The BLFS book says that you can use either /usr or /usr/X11R6. In your case, using /usr, you need to edit the commands there a little bit. install -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts && ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF && ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF becomes for you: install -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts && ln -svn /usr/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF && ln -svn /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF That's all. Second Question: In my case I used the 'host.def' given in the Book. I found
that no module for kbd or keyboard was created and, hence, the 'X' window never came up and I got the error in the log that no keyboard drivers were found. I noticed that in the 'host.def' given in the Book, in the '#define XInputDrivers' Section, only 'mouse' and 'void' are given (incidently, what is 'void'? Literally, it means nothing). 'keyboard' or 'kbd' which used to be given in the earlier versions, are missing. Is this a bug? Do I have to enter 'keyboard' or 'kbd' into this Section for the keyboard drivers to be built?
Well, don't know much about XFree86, but as you say it doesn't work for you without having there the modules defined, you should ofcourse define keyboard/kbd there. I think others need to confirm this. Thanks and Regards,
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