<snip> >>Has anyone got XFree86-4.2.0 (or higher) working on a RedHat 7.1 box? >> <snip> >I can only assume if XFree86-4.2 is compatable for RH7.1 then RHN would >have acted accordingly. > >This is my opinion wait for others to reply. > >For fun go to www.XFree86.org > >Roy (not a linux guru) -------- >you can go to www.xfree86.org and grab a copy of precomiled binaries >(these are not rpms) from their ftp server (they are in the glibc22 dir.). >They will work with seawolf. Or you can grab the sourcecode there and >compile and install it on your machine (it is not that difficult). > >Bye, > >Stephan
Thanks, Roy and Stephen! Have already been to the xfree.org site. Downloaded all the good stuff. I ran into two problems: (1) Not packaged as an RPM, so if I use it, it won't be tracked by the RPM database system. "Not end of world, but I can see it from there!" (2) Xinstall.sh provided by xfree.org does not install in quite the same way as RedHat does, so things break. I would have to track down pretty much every link in the rather extensive number of files involved in a "startx" process. Ack. (I suppose it would be a good learning process, if I had the time). All that said, I finally got XFree86-4.1.0-25 (most recent provided for RedHat 7.1) to work on my box with the SiS chipset. Not all works, though, particularly drm and dri stuff. Just to annoy me, RedHat DOES have 4.2.0 rpm's for newer versions of RedHat! Jim _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
