[ydl-gen] X.org vs X.Free was Re: yellowdog-general Digest, Vol 22, Issue 5

[Christopher Murtagh]

On 6/27/06, Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong <nova at macintoshclub.com> 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