How to build entirety of Xorg 7.4 from source

[Ben Gamari]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 12:04 -0500, John Lumby wrote:
> I recently tried to do this.   I wish I had read your posts on this
> first!.   But now I have a build that "nearly" works and would greatly
> appreciate if you can offer any hints on how to make it work
> completely, or if the advice should be to throw away and start again.
> Please bear with me.
> 
> For various reasons (which I can explain but may not be relevant) I
> decided to try to build Xorg from source, on a system which was
> originally Fedora Core 6 and since then upgraded slightly.    The
> objective was to be able to use an "nv" driver on my graphics device
> (NVIDIA FX570M) without having to use nvidia's own nvidia driver which
> is problematic (and latest version doesn't work at all)

You may want to consider upgrading. I think relatively few people will
want to help debug software from three years ago. The bugs you are
experiencing would be pretty tough to figure out due to the wide variety
of software versions present on the system. Just my 2 cents,

- Ben