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guyr
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 Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:03 am Post subject: Is this the rght way to switch to Xorg? |
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I'm brand new to Gentoo, installed from the 2004.2 Live CD onto my eMachines AMD64 laptop, which has an ATI 9600 Mobility chip. Once I got up and running the first thing I did was "emerge gnome". When I tried to startx, I got some failures parsing my XF86Config-4 file, which I had copied from my Mandrake 10.0 AMD64 partition on the same laptop. Having read quite a bit about the XFree 4.4 release and the Xorg fork, and knowing that this release is required to support the ATI 9600, I decided to switch to Xorg.
I've read some messages on the Gentoo mailing lists advising to unmerge XFree before installing Xorg. But I saw in /usr/X11R6/bin both an Xorg and XFree86 executable, so I thought I'd try just switching the /usr/X11/X symlink from XFree86 to Xorg. It appears to have worked! /var/log/Xorg.0.log is now getting messages. Is this an acceptable way to switch from XFree86 to Xorg? I was surprised to see that "emerge gnome" had caused *both* XFree86 and Xorg to be installed. Apparently they can co-exist?
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They can't really co-exist - they put a lot of files in the same place, so many of the Xfree86 files will have been overwritten by Xorg. You should probably emerge -C xfree just to remove the last few files that weren't overwritten - like the XFree86 binary you discovered.
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guyr
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Maedhros, thanks for the reply. How can I tell if XFree86 or Xorg was installed second? I'm trying to gauge if I have a valid installation. Any idea on why "emerge gnome" caused both XFree and Xorg to be installed? That doesn't seem like an appropriate thing to do.
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Xfree and xorg should block each other from both being installed. Nevertheless, you can use qpkg and equery to check the integrity of a package. Both are part of gentoolkit. Alternatively, use genlop to see when a package was installed and uninstalled.
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| Maedhros wrote: | | They can't really co-exist - they put a lot of files in the same place, so many of the Xfree86 files will have been overwritten by Xorg. You should probably emerge -C xfree just to remove the last few files that weren't overwritten - like the XFree86 binary you discovered. |
Well, I guess xfree must have gotten installed after Xorg, because when I issued the command you indicate above, startx was gone. When I then tried running Xorg directly, it said it was unable to find shared lib libXau.so.6. So I emerged xorg-x11 and I'm back up and running again.
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