Mike, thanks for the great work.
Will there be a an RPM for Red Hat 8.0?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 8:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [XFree86] Re: Red hat v8.0 Binaries Coming?
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
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Mike A. Harris
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