Want to backup current driver before installing the lastest from git...how?

[Richard Bronosky]

I'm sorry that makes absolutely no sense to me.  I have never launched xorg
manually.

I guess I should add desktop environment and display manager to that list.

On 6/7/07, manu <eallaud at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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> On 06/07/2007 07:23:15 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> > First, I'm very unclear about the roles and "position in the stack" of
> > kernel modules, drivers, xorg, and xrandr.  So, I need to find a good
> > resource for that info.
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> > I'm trying to stay up to date with the latest dev video drivers, xorg,
> > and xrandr.  I just don't know how to backup (and recover from backup
> > if needed).  I know people have to be doing this.  Can you suggest to
> > me how?
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> Well I vahe installed the whole new server and drivers alongside the
> one provided by my distro by compiling with a prefix: I used
> /usr/local. You just have to put /usr/local/bin in your path and put
> somewhere (like ld.so.conf) the /usr/local/lib in the library path.
> It works no problem by doing startx -- /usr/locab/bin/Xorg for example.
> Good luck,
> Manu
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