I've been playing with Linux from Scratch for a while now, including building
XFree86 and DRI from CVS to test some updates to the glint/gamma support on
my GVX1 card. Unfortunately the driver is still only 2D. The only source for
3D acceleration is xig's commercial driver. Now that xig has finally included
the RENDER extension and full screen AA, I thought I'd build a fresh box from
scratch and install the xig Accellerated-X instead of XFree86 to avoid any
problems, and then build KDE on top of this. Unfortunately, after looking
through the RPM from xig, it seems that only the OpenGL libs and includes are
included. Therefore it would not be possible to build anything else.
Below is a recent conversation with the xig support team. Their suggestion is
to build the libs and headers from XFree86 and install their Accelerated-X
server on top. My question is, is it possible to build and install ONLY the
libs and headers and such, or will I need to build the entire XFree86 and
then install Accelerated-X on top of it? I would like to have as clean an
installation as possible which is why I was hoping to only install
Accerated-X without XFree86.
Of course this is only until the 3D acceleration gets fixed in XFree86. Thank
you for any information.
Cheers,
John Gay
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Subject: Re: where are the support libs?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:42 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jon Trulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Michael Ginis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, John Gay wrote:
> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:44:47 +0100
> From: John Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Michael Ginis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Jon Trulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: where are the support libs?
>
> On Thu 03 Oct 2002 23:49, you wrote:
> > Dear John,
> >
> > I'm a little confused what is happening. Gold and Platinum versions
> > of Accelerated-X Summit come with the GL libraries and headers. They
> > should not replace or install other libraries on your system. You can
> > install the XFree86 specific headers without affecting Summit (however
> > there are sometimes problems with the Mesa OpenGL headers XFree86
> > comes with). The RENDER extension requires that the appropriate the
> > client libraries and applications (which are separate from the X
> > server) are installed for it to work. What were you trying to build
> > that did not succeed when Accelerated-X was installed?
> >
> > Sincerely,
>
> Actually, what I wanted to to do was to build a Linux system from scratch,
> then install Accelerated-X, then build KDE and other X programs without
> having to build or install any other version of X. Therefore, the system
> would only have your libs, which are only the OpenGL ones.
>
> But judging from what you each have said, I would need to build and install
> a previous version of X, then use Accelerated-X to replace the parts it
> does, including any version of OpenGL just to have the rest of the X libs I
> will need to build KDE and other X programs. Is this correct?
Well, you'd only need to X environment (libs, headers etc)... Then
install the X server after all that is done...
> I was hoping to avoid any potential problems by not building/installing any
> other version of X except Accelerated-X.
The only problem you would run into is the OpenGL libraries... ie:
Mesa. Just don't build that. Or if you do, just be sure to install
accelx afterward.
> Does this clear up my question?
Yes ;-)
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