On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > You only need the updated kernel if you want direct rendering support. > If this is worthless to you, don't bother with the updated kernel.
Unfortunately this might not be true. Or rather, it's probably not just the kernel that is the problem, rather it's the new glibc in Phoebe (current RedHat beta) and Rawhide. RedHat are apparently using a backport of the Linux 2.5 threading enhancements in their Phoebe kernel, and a glibc glibc with NPTL threading. It's unfortunately far from clear that XFree86 compiled for that version of glibc will work with the one in RedHat 8.0. Thus the necessary (bare minimum) update for using those binary packages may well be a new kernel, a new glibc, and possibly something else I don't know of. (I did try downloading one of the binary packages, it complained about the glibc version and I didn't feel like using 'rpm --force' or something similar for installing it since it seemed like the problem might be for real and I didn't feel like hosing the machine...) It is perfectly possible that the SRPMs could be recompiled for RedHat 8.0. I haven't tried that yet and thus I have no idea how well it would work. (Kernel modules for DRM would have to be compiled separately though.) At home I currently run RedHat 8.0 with XFree86 compiled from CVS a few days before the 4.3.0 release. (I haven't had time to update yet.) It works in general but seems to have broken some of the font handling, in some applications (notably Mozilla). I haven't figured out what went wrong yet, I'll probably try recompiling Mike's packages instead at some point - no time anytime soon though I'm afraid... Best regards, Per Bjornsson _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
