WH Bouterse wrote:
>
> Since my original post which did generate
> some feedback, I am now to the point of:
>
> Has anyone successfully installed the
> mdkrpms from the Contrib sites? (With no probs?)
I did but for the experimental Glx module which is just not part of
XFree86.
> My X system is totally screwed up and trying
> the 'XF86Config' from the command line did not
> "do it" for me. I am about ready to rpm -e all the
> ones in question and re-introduce the 3.3x ones if
> no one else has any ideas. BTW the command line,
> 'xfs -port -1 &' 'xfs -port -7100 &' etc. did not work
> for me either
if you've got problems with xfs, just replace it in XF86Config by hard
coding font paths (these are /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts from memory - i'm
using Solaris Xserver at this moment)
>
> At one point Frederic Lepied wrote
> "I'm going to upload an updated set of packages which corrects this
> problem." ?
>
> I assume this means to be patient if I can't
> properly compile things myself (which is true) and
> some of these issue will be taken care of by the
> MandrakeSoft Coding Gurus !:)
<bad_guy_mode>
You want to test beta software (yes beta as XFree86-4 is (at this
moment) not as well tested as 3.3.x releases, which requires time,
people and hardware). So you should have known that there may be bugs or
problems.
If you just want full quality software, use version 3.3.6 which is
stable, fast and have many extensions of v4 (thanks chmou).
If you don't want to help the community in having a well tested X-4, use
v3 or don't complain for "future rpm promeses" (this take time to fix
problems). F Lepied is making good work in building Xfree86-4 RPMS.
XFree86-4 won't be the standard X server for a while (say Mdk8 with
Linux-2.4, apache-2, ..,7.x 'll be 'bug fixes/better hardware support'
releases.
</bad_guy_mode>
see you
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Thierry
