thanks guys is there a work around so that i can still use it. now i am using generic vesa driver, but i am unable to startx directly as it hangs and displays full blue,green,red screens all i have to do is press ctrl+alt+del to restart in text mode then issue startx command to get gui Right now bcoz of my application which runs only on rhel4 we r unable to use rhel5 can u suggest me some twaeks to use vesa driver Thanks das
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Robinson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Openchrome-users] via Chrome Driver compilation To: "Xavier Bachelot" <[email protected]> Cc: "Saravanan Doss" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 10:20 PM On 22/01/2009 14:58, Xavier Bachelot wrote: > Saravanan Doss wrote: >> hi all >> I am running RHEL AS4 with update 6 on my laptop having chrome9 IGP. The kernel version is 2.6.9-67 ELSMP >> When i try to compile the source code it reports xorg-server.pc package not found >> where can i find the package or is there a work around >> > Imho, forget about the home made compilation. RHEL4 is still running > monolithic X (6.8.2 iirc), which means you'll have to patch X with > openchrome and rebuild everything. This is a lot of pain, I've done it > for years back in the days of unichrome, but I also stopped maintaining > it for year. And openchrome probably doesn't even compile with this > setup anymore. You can possibly take a look at the contributed binary > packages page in the wiki, John Robinson used to rebuild my Fedora > packages on RHEL4, but he probably quit doing that too. Yes, 'fraid so. If my office was less of a disaster zone I'd fire up the machine I used to do the builds on and have a go doing a fresh one, but it'll be weeks before that's possible. > You'd rather update to RHEL5/CentOS5, enable the EPEL repository, then > yum install xorg-x11-drv-openchrome, I'm now maintaining the openchrome > driver in upstream Fedora/EPEL rather than in my own repository. Which is what I now run. Cheers, John.
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