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Sławomir Gąsiorowski
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 Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:56 am Post subject: Gentoo and Xfree3.3.6 |
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Hello everybody !!!
I've installed Gentoo od my old pentium 200mmx with AT3D (Alliance Promotion - Voodoo Rush). Everything works great (kernel 2.6.7-gentoo-r6). I have used some tricks to increase performance like modifications in kernel .arch/i386/Makefile, set global env variables CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS during bootstrap, and hash strip-flags in glibc ebuild. Now I'm impressed on it's overall performance and system bootup time.
Ok, now I want to emerge XFree3.3.6, why ? Because my video card works properly ONLY with 3.3.6 version. On Mandrake, and Red Hat my video card driver (apm) XFree4.x.x sometimes hangs up linux, moreover, there were problems with hardware acceleration, cursor - generally with stability...
XFree3.3.6 works fine, but there is a little problem, I can't find it in Gentoo portage tree... 
Of course I will compile it manually. But please explain me please, why there is no XFree3.3.6 support in Gentoo, when at the same time there is still support for ancient 2.0.x kernel ?
Best regards to everybody
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slikdigit
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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this is not an answer to your question, but I think you may be able to locate (or make ) an xfree 3.3.6 ebuild and put it into your portage overlay dir. This'll probably make your life easier.
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| There's an ebuild in bugzilla, and quite a few threads about it on these forums. |
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Sławomir Gąsiorowski
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Thank you.
I've downloaded xfree-3.3.6.tbz2 and unpacked in /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree.
Important!!! Before emerge a little correction in xfree-3.3.6.ebuild is needed, because:
| Code: | vampire xfree # emerge -pv x11-base/xfree/xfree-3.3.6.ebuild
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies \
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "sys-devel/perl".
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. |
So I changed sys-devel/perl to dev-lang/perl, and emerge:
| Code: | vampire xfree # emerge -pv x11-base/xfree/xfree-3.3.6.ebuild
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-3.3.6 45,319 kB
Total size of downloads: 45,319 kB |
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dyqik
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Before you give up on recent XFree builds, did you build XFree from source on either of Redhat or Mandrake?
It could be that their binary builds were broken in some way, and that building a recent version from source on Gentoo will give you a working video card driver. X.org might also work. |
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| dyqik wrote: | Before you give up on recent XFree builds, did you build XFree from source on either of Redhat or Mandrake?
It could be that their binary builds were broken in some way, and that building a recent version from source on Gentoo will give you a working video card driver. X.org might also work. |
Or, as I did, extract only the binary from Xfree 3.3.6, and use it in Xfree 4.x. |
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Sławomir Gąsiorowski
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| dyqik wrote: | Before you give up on recent XFree builds, did you build XFree from source on either of Redhat or Mandrake?
It could be that their binary builds were broken in some way, and that building a recent version from source on Gentoo will give you a working video card driver. X.org might also work. |
I've never used XFree-3.3.6 builded from source. I've used Red Hat and Mandrake RPM's packages. Of course, maybe the binary builds were broken, but I've tried many 4.x.x RPM'ed versions with my AT25 card before but without successes... By the way XFree-3.3.6 is faster, I'm sure it works and better for my old Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM:)
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Pythagoras1
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don't want to try xorg-x11?  |
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