On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Kevin Brosius wrote: >Hopefully Mike won't scream to loud: > >4.3.0 RPM packages for Red Hat Linux: >ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86
Hote that these 4.3.0 RPM packages are compiled against our Red Hat Linux (Phoebe) beta 3, and not against Red Hat Linux 8.0. The packages require Phoebe in order to install and run. Brave users who are capable of determining other package dependancies on their own, and resolving them from rebuilt rawhide packages, can attempt to rebuild my XFree86 src.rpm themselves on Red Hat Linux 8.0, after first compiling and installing the required build dependancies. Users attempting this will also have to either run the rawhide kernel to use DRI 3D acceleration, or will have to compile the 4.3.0 DRM source code manually themselves for their running kernel. This is not a task for the faint of heart, so be forewarned. ;o) I'm not personally able to provide assistance to users requiring help recompiling X, or DRM kernel modules, but I can provide the following tips 1) IRC is a horrible place to try and get help for compiling kernel modules, because the people who likely can possibly help, are tired of doing it 50 times a day and generally do not respond as they aren't interested in answering this complex frequently asked question - so freenode isn't the best place for help. I speak from experience on this one (of the other side of the fence), so trust me. ;o) 2) The DRI website contains tonnes of documentation. Please read it thoroughly if you plan on compiling DRM yourself and haven't ever done so in this manner before 3) This mailing list, and dri-users may be able to provide answers to help questions the DRI website's documentation doesn't cover clearly. I just thought I would mention these things to hopefully save some people some time from hunting in the wrong places. ;o) It happens a lot. ;o) Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
