> I accessed the XFree86.org cvs yesterday and checked out the 4.2.99.3 > branch. It took nearly all day yesterday to 'download'. > How do I extract the source for 4.2.99.3?
Greg, Here are notes of what I did to get XFree86 4.2.99.3 to work with RedHat 8.0: 1. Get CVSup from ftp://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/binaries/RedHat-6/ 2. Place the .tar.gz file in desired directory and extract contents (in KDE, right click on file and select "Extract Here...") 3. Launch terminal and cd to /usr 4. create /xbuild and /sup under /usr (mkdir xbuild, mkdir sup) 5.create /xf86 under /sup (cd to sup, mkdir xf86) 6. with a text editor, create a text file named a.txt containing the following content: *default release=cvs host=anoncvs.xfree86.org base=/usr/sup/xf86 *default prefix=/usr/Xbuild delete use-rel-suffix *default compress *default tag=. cvs-base xc-all contrib-all xtest-all doctools-all utils-all 7. place a.txt in the directory where cvsup was extracted to 8. in terminal, cd to directory where cvsup was extracted to 9. run the command: ./cvsup a.txt 10. run the command several times, as necessary, until the last line in terminal says the transfer was completed successfully 11. run the command one more time to make sure. 12. in terminal, cd to /usr/xbuild 13. in terminal, run the command: make World 14. make World may take 1 to 2 hours to complete 15. shut down xFree86, if it is running - the easiest way to do this is to go to a terminal window and execute the command: shutdown now This will shutdown xFree86 and a few other processes and bring up a console prompt 16. with xFree86 not running and at a terminal prompt, cd /usr/xbuild 17. run the command: make install 18. make install will take 30min to an hour 19. reboot the machine 20. Under System Settings, Display, you should have more resolution and color depth choices under the Intel 845 chip. Hope this helps! Tom Dolan _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
