Hi Nick:
Regarding finding a CD drive for your computer. You are probably aware
of all the standard places for finding a drive. I discovered a
reliable and yet little known company called Compuvest (a few years
ago), which offers quite a lot of hardware of all kinds (including CD
or optical drives), at really surprising prices. They have become a
personal preference which I check first, when I am looking for
equipment. Maybe, what they have could be useful to you? Here's a
link to them:
http://www.compuvest.com/
On Jul 13, 2006, at 8:36 PM, Nicholas wrote:
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On 6/27/06, Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, I did this and all the X stuff pointed to XFree86 4.x, not X.org.
The other option you have is to go to x.org itself and find what is
available there - download the source, compile it, build the
executables and install them. However getting what is current from
them may not help you if their package requires the more current
packages available in the Linux kernel or other dependencies which
replace those you may be familiar with. And as some dependencies
are
shared across different applications this may become an unwieldy
problem pretty quickly. Depending on the computer you use for YDL
you
have a variety of choices.
I guess this is my best bet.
Re-compiling X.org might be a lot of work. YDL4.1 uses X.org, and I'm
pretty sure that YDL4.0 does too. I think the last YDL release to use
XFree was YDL3. Depending on how much you've customized your system,
maybe upgrading to 4.1 might help your situation a bit?
Cheers,
Chris
Yes, I tried to recompile X.org, but it gave nasty errors (IIRC, some
sort of dependency thing), and took up about 1GB of my 5, so I removed
it. I currently do not have a working CD drive for that computer, so I
guess I cannot do anything for now. Once I can, either 4.1 or Ubuntu (I
have it on my desktop and grew fond of apt, which is the same as fink
for OSX) will go onto it.
nick
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