On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:48:09PM -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote: > 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. >
In the event, we finally got things working. I compiled from the tarballs on the xfree86 site, not the source RPMs, on a test machine. Everything installed and ran just fine. I then did the same on my teacher's machine. I then walked the class throught the process, first installing needed RPMs. Here is a list of the packages that I made sure were present for the compile: binutils bison flex gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel glibc-kernheaders libpng-devel libstdc++ ncurses-devel zlib-devel You may wish to add this list to the documentation for the benefit of future tarball users. The result ran on all the machines except one. The program redhat-config-xfree86 failed to configure that machine. It had been sent back to the factory, so may have had slightly different hardware. I tossed in the hard drive on which I had done the original experimental compile and installation. That came up and ran correctly. I'll try putting my XFree86.config on that student's hard drive and see what happens. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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