On Wed April 14 2004 17:14, Jesse Kline wrote: > I've got the Load "glx" and Load "dri" lines as well as the Mode 0666 line > in my XF86Config file, however if I try to use the r128 driver, my X server > will not start up.
Have you installed the r128 DRI package or RPM? > Any other ideas? I'm also a little confused now. What is > the difference between the X.org X server and the freedesktop.org X server? Good question. It's not surprising because it is very confusing. Poor name choices and coincidental hosting providers are contributing to the confusion. Hopefully I can clear things up: X.org X server is a fork of XFree86 from just before the licensing changes (i.e. XFree86 4.4 RC2). It is referred to as X11R7. It just happens to be hosted by freedesktop.org (who also host a number of other free software projects). Because it is a fork of XFree86 (and a recent one at that) the driver API, etc. are still identical to XFree86, so you shouldn't have any problems running NVIDIA or ATI binary drivers with this release. Here's a link: http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/ freedesktop.org is producing their own X server (but not the entire X suite, just the server) that supports nifty things like transparencies, etc. A driver model for 3D acceleration has not yet been created, so you won't be using your NVIDIA or ATI drivers with this X server -- VESA framebuffer only. Here's the link: http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver Looks like they have X libs now, too. http://freedesktop.org/Software/xlibs HTH, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
