On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Nino Margetic wrote:

>> I think we're the only two people in the world using Linux on a Tecra
>> 9000. Please let me know if you have any success with sound drivers and
>> configuration.
>
>*** I sincerely hope not, but one never knows.. :-)
>
>In any case, in the meantime I tried to get the X working (actually I was
>almost finished when your first response came) and in the midst of
>upgrading XFree86 RPMs from rawhide... This actually worked and I've got a
>usable X at present...
>
>Unfortunately this procedure is almost as bad as DLL-hell from M$ and in
>the process I had to upgrade half of the system, gcc included.  Now I've
>got gcc 3.1 and can't get a useful kernel (haven't tried yet 2.4.18, but
>.16 and .17 certainly do NOT produce a usable kernel - even when using
>arch/i386/defconfig)... I think I'll just re-install 7.2 and use your
>suggested method.. :-)

Which is not surprising since rawhide specifically is NOT 
supposed to work on Red Hat Linux 7.1 or 7.2, since it has been 
compiled mostly with gcc 3.1.  Rawhide is our internal 
development tree, and is not ever intended, nor advertised to be 
stable or useable.  Rawhide is as close to downloading XFree86 
off my hard disk while I'm editing the source code as you can 
get.  Not something you should _ever_ expect to work, or expect 
to work without problems.

That said, my XFree86 4.2.0 RPM's that have been compiled and 
packaged for Red Hat Linux 7.2 work fairly well, and do not have 
the dependancies referenced above.

<grin>



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