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Upgrading to X 4.2.0 from stock Slack 8.0 X
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| I'm relatively new to Linux. I would like to get away from windows, if at
least for a short time. I have an ATI Radeon 7500, and I believe that the
new version of X supports my card
(http://www.xfree86.com/4.2.0/Status6.html#6). I've been looking for a bit
of help in some different places, but most of the time I don't get a
response. I need to upgrade to this new version from the console, and I
don't know how. I know that I have the net working as I can ping sites like
yahoo and google. Will someone tell me what it is that I need to enter in
to get the damn thing downloaded?
-Kero
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| Wesley Snott 2002-07-24, 7:25 pm |
| Kero wrote:
> I'm relatively new to Linux. I would like to get away from windows, if at
> least for a short time. I have an ATI Radeon 7500, and I believe that the
> new version of X supports my card
> (http://www.xfree86.com/4.2.0/Status6.html#6). I've been looking for a bit
> of help in some different places, but most of the time I don't get a
> response. I need to upgrade to this new version from the console, and I
> don't know how. I know that I have the net working as I can ping sites like
> yahoo and google. Will someone tell me what it is that I need to enter in
> to get the damn thing downloaded?
>
> -Kero
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>
Very simple.
Use pkgtool to uninstall xfree86.
Unpack the 3 .tar.gz files (I can't remember off hand what they are, but
it's something like xf86-1.tar.gz xf86-2.tar.gz and xf86-3.tar.gz).
Find the host.def file (cd xc/config/cf)
Edit it to suit. Check the default install path and optimisations (if
you want any). I use -03 instead of -02.
Make sure the radeon stuff isn't commented out. Conversely, make sure
you don't have garbage included you don't need (it will take ages to
compile).
cd back into the top-level xc directory.
Type:
make World >& world.log
This will make X and output stuff to world.log
If you don't want to keep the log, just 'make World' will do.
Then 'make install', and 'make install.man' to install X and the man files.
Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config if necessary (will be for you if you
haven't had X going before). You can use something like XFree86
-configure to attempt to autodetect things, but you may need to setup
your mouse and desktop resolution yourself.
startx.
You can also try the DRI cvs, which includes Texture, Clipping and
Lighting stuff, as well as the new Mesa-4.0.3. It's a bit crashy though
(most annoying for me is that Tribes 2 doesn't work at all).
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| Joachim Feise 2002-07-24, 10:25 pm |
| Wesley Snott wrote:
> Kero wrote:
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>> I'm relatively new to Linux. I would like to get away from windows,
>> if at
>> least for a short time. I have an ATI Radeon 7500, and I believe
>> that the
>> new version of X supports my card
>> (http://www.xfree86.com/4.2.0/Status6.html#6). I've been looking for
>> a bit
>> of help in some different places, but most of the time I don't get a
>> response. I need to upgrade to this new version from the console, and I
>> don't know how. I know that I have the net working as I can ping
>> sites like
>> yahoo and google. Will someone tell me what it is that I need to
>> enter in
>> to get the damn thing downloaded?
>>
>> -Kero
>>
>>
> Very simple.
> Use pkgtool to uninstall xfree86.
> Unpack the 3 .tar.gz files (I can't remember off hand what they are, but
> it's something like xf86-1.tar.gz xf86-2.tar.gz and xf86-3.tar.gz).
> Find the host.def file (cd xc/config/cf)
Why so complicated? There are precompiled binaries. No need to get
the sources...
-Joe
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| Joachim Feise 2002-07-24, 10:25 pm |
| Kero wrote:
> I'm relatively new to Linux. I would like to get away from windows, if at
> least for a short time. I have an ATI Radeon 7500, and I believe that the
> new version of X supports my card
> (http://www.xfree86.com/4.2.0/Status6.html#6). I've been looking for a bit
> of help in some different places, but most of the time I don't get a
> response. I need to upgrade to this new version from the console, and I
> don't know how. I know that I have the net working as I can ping sites like
> yahoo and google. Will someone tell me what it is that I need to enter in
> to get the damn thing downloaded?
You can use the text mode browser lynx to download the binaries.
Or you could use ftp to go to ftp.xfree86.org
There are install instructions on the site.
Make sure to download the precompiled binaries. Compiling the sources
(as I did for Slack 7) is a pretty long affair.
-Joe
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| Justin 2002-07-26, 10:25 am |
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"Kero" <Mannsonite@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:T7F%8.154546$uw.90802@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> I'm relatively new to Linux. I would like to get away from windows, if at
> least for a short time. I have an ATI Radeon 7500, and I believe that
the
> new version of X supports my card
> (http://www.xfree86.com/4.2.0/Status6.html#6). I've been looking for a
bit
> of help in some different places, but most of the time I don't get a
> response. I need to upgrade to this new version from the console, and I
> don't know how. I know that I have the net working as I can ping sites
like
> yahoo and google. Will someone tell me what it is that I need to enter in
> to get the damn thing downloaded?
>
> -Kero
>
>
You can also download the latest version of slackware "8.1" which comes with
xfree4.2.0, find a good ftp mirror though, slacks site tends to be slow, or
just download the packages for Xfree
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