'official' Xorg version 6.8.1 on YDL4

[Andrew]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 08:00, Geert Janssens wrote:
> YDL 4 comes with Xorg v6.6 (rpm xorg-x11-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.9.ydl.1).
> 
> The v6.8 release though comes with DRI support for Mach64 graphical 
> chips (such as ATI Rage LT, ATI Rage II found in many Old World Macs). 
> This added support is of great interest to me.
> 
> My question is, has anyone tried to compile the 6.8.x release on YDL? 
> What were the difficulties ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Geert Jan

Hello, im just done building Xorg 6.8.1. I've used the 'official'
tarball from x.org site. Im using it right now its overall 'snappier'
with my Mach64 6MB (beige G3's build-in so-called video card).
 IE:
1- the rectangle shaped zooms when minimizing windows are now really
zoomin' to the taskbar instead of lazily going down there. 
2- XMMS windows were *very* slow before 6.8.1. Now its real close to
YDL3 speed. That is a good thing :-)
 
 (only) problem I've spot so far:
1- Some fonts have changed. Opera's fonts were microscopic, terminal's
and gkrellm's fonts have changed, too... I like'em better anyway :)

I jumped on it on my own. Performing a straight build and install. I
didnt removed the 6.6 RPMs prior to build 6.8.1. I'd say its a success. 
I have yet to reconfigure XF86Config file. Its still using the original
one (from 6.6)

All I have done is:
1- download the tarball... (from x.org 'single-src' file: 
X11R66.8.1-src.tar.gz - 
2- cd /usr/src/yellowdog/SOURCES/ [enter]
3- tar zxvf /home/andrew/dls/X11R6.8.1-src.tar.gz [enter]
4- cd xc [enter]
5- nedit README RELNOTES BUILD & [enter]
# Im pleased to see documentation is getting better!
6- make World > World.log 2>&1 [enter]
# making sure all went fine:
7- nedit World.log & [enter]
# Yes, its alright!
8- su -c 'make install; make install.man' [enter]
9- Reboot!