'official' Xorg version 6.8.1 on YDL4

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Andrew,

The only issue I see with dumping 6.8.1 on top of and installed 6.6 is
that you may mask deficiencies in the 6.8.1 release.

You observed some font problems.  When I did a clean install I
encountered problems with the cursor bitmaps. I couldn't see the cursor
but knew it was there because I could see "bit flicker" when I moved
it.  I haven't [yet] figured out how to resolve this problem.  It's on
my list of things to do.


-Joseph

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On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 07:13, Andrew wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 
> 
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