How to build entirety of Xorg 7.4 from source

[Florian Lier]

hey jd,

No problem....
I guess "the rt2860 wifi mini-pci" driver won't be affected by building 
a xserver ^^

"ATI Mobility Radeon 9600"  I guess the latest driver from the git works 
fine (but
you better ask here or google first)

"How do you suggest I install 7.4 (once I build it) - I mean
do I first uninstall my existing X (on which so many packages
depend), and then install 7.4?"

You don't need to replace or uninstall your "old" xserver,
as you might have noticed the script builds the server
here: PREFIX="/opt/gfx-test" which means you can
start the sever like that:


   1.

      rmmod i915 /# assuming you're using Intel/

   2.

      rmmod drm

   3.

      insmod /<path_to_drm_tree_above>//linux-core/drm.ko

   4.

      insmod /<path_to_drm_tree_above>//linux-core/i915.ko

   5.

      export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gfx-test/lib

   6.

      startx -- /opt/gfx-test/bin/Xorg -verbose /# make sure you have a
      ~/.xinitrc with what you want to run/


If the server works fine you can set the new xorg stack as your default 
x-server. I won't recommend you
setting a "bleeding edge" X as default (btw, it won't startup atm have a 
look @ xorg tinderbox).
I don't know that much about Fedora, but I installed FC10 lately from a 
live cd which works fine for me...
Do you want to compile it from scratch?

Cheers, Florian



JD wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> and thank you very much for your response.
> I have a Fedora FC7 notebook.  with 2 cruicial drivers
> that I had struggled a lot to make  them work; namely,
> the rt2860 wifi mini-pci card from Ralink Technology, and
> the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600.
> The modification that have been made to these drivers in
> their latest incarnations, do not work for me.
>
> How do you suggest I install 7.4 (once I build it) - I mean
> do I first uninstall my existing X (on which so many packages
> depend), and then install 7.4? I am afraid that the dependencies
> will be broken, and many if not most graphical packages
> will stop working.
>
> Best regards,
>
> JD
>
>
> Florian Lier wrote:
>> Hey JD,
>>
>> there's a little script on the Xorg / git development site.
>>
>> http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git
>>
>> You can copy and paste the script into a myxorgscript.sh (chmod +x it )
>> You can start building X like that (in console): sh myxorgscript init 
>> | build | update
>>
>> Depending on what distri you're using you'll need a bunch of 
>> dependencies.
>> If you're on Ubuntu I can help you out...
>>
>>
>> DEPS="\autoconf automake xserver-xorg-dev libdrm-dev build-essential 
>> libxxf86vm-dev libxdamage-dev libxfixes-dev libxfixes3 expat 
>> libexpat-dev libtool autobook \
>> libxinerama1 libxinerama-dev libxkbfile-dev libxkbfile1 openssl 
>> libssl-dev xkbsel x11-xkb-utils libxfont1 libxfont-dev git-core gawk 
>> libxt-dev \
>> xdebconfigurator autoconf-doc libhal-dev libdbus-1-dev 
>> libxcomposite-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libxrandr-dev \
>> libxdamage-dev libxinerama-dev libstartup-notification0-dev 
>> libgconf2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libmetacity-dev 
>> librsvg2-dev libdbus-1-dev \
>> libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-window-settings-dev 
>> gitweb curl intltool libxslt1-dev xsltproc libwnck-dev python-dev 
>> libX11-xcb-dev \
>> pyrex-mode python-pyrex x11proto-scrnsaver-dev libxss-dev 
>> libprotobuf0 libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler gperf xmlto 
>> libglut3-dev freeglut3-dev \
>> freeglut-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa"
>>
>>
>> (this is if you want to build compiz too)
>>
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> cheers florian
>>
>> JD wrote:
>>> Dear Developers of Xorg
>>>
>>> I wanted to build the entirety of X 7.4 frm source, but when
>>> I saw that it is made up of individual tarballs, I decided to
>>> write and ask if there is a single tarball of everything,
>>> with a top level configure ...etc to build the whole thing.
>>>
>>> I searched the FAQ for a "how to build X" or just "how to build"
>>> but came up empty.
>>>
>>> Thanx for any info to show how to build the whole 7.4 X system.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> JD
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> xorg mailing list
>>> xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
>>>
>>>   
>>
>

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