Okay, I've made some progress. I used CVS to checkout the current (as of today) version of XFree86, then I compiled and installed it. Now when I boot Linux (Redhat 7.1) I get a logon screen for GNOME rather than nothing, as I did before. When I logon, however, there is just one open window which has "xsm: Default" as a header, and four panels: "Client List, Session Log, Checkpoint, Shutdown." That's it. Nothing else is on the screen. I know what it should look like since I've installed RH7.1 on another machine with no problems. I'm specifying the r128 driver with no additional arguments.
Any ideas? Another thing. When I run startx from a command prompt it complains about not finding libfreetype.so.7, even though this library exists under /usr/X11R6/lib. The log file indicates that the video card (ATI 128 Rage Pro Ultra) is being detected apart from "No DFP Detected." What does THAT mean? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sprague, IT3 Sent: November 6, 2001 11:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Newbie]video problem: ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra Because so much has changed since 4.1.0, you'll need the entire thing (cvs -z9 checkout xc). A few MAJOR caveats, though: do *NOT* move the /usr/X11R6 tree, this will break tons of stuff. If you want a backup, COPY (with tar or cp, or use a GUI) that tree elsewhere. If you use a version of GCC later than 2.95.3 (if you use RedHat 7.x or Mandrake 8.x, you do. otherwise, use gcc --version to find out), then you'll need to edit the file xc/config/cf/xf86site.def. In that file, there's a line which reads #define DefaultGcci386Opt (or something to that effect). make sure that option reads '-O3 -march=pentium -mcpu=pentium -fno-merge-constants -fschedule-insns2 -fomit-frame-pointer' (sans the quotes, of course). These options will make X faster, but the -fno-merge-constants is absolutely necessary to avoid a fatal error afterward. Note that you can (and should) replace 'pentium' in '-march=pentium -mcpu=pentium' with 'pentiumpro' if you have a Pentium Pro/II/III/IV/Celeron or with 'athlon' if you have an Athlon/Athlon MP/Athlon XP/Duron Morgan/Duron Spitfire. These are further optimizations that will make X run more efficiently (read:faster) on your hardware. To do the actual CVS checkout, follow the instructions on the XFree86 site. It takes a few hours over a 56k dialup. It shouldn't be too bad over 128k ISDN or DSL/cable, though. (make absolutely sure to use the -z9 flag to CVS, in order to enable compression.) _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
