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@related: XWindow xserver-xfree86 Ubuntu Debian Radeon TvOut DRI x.org xrandr ati drm SVideo

ToDo :

X slow to start in ubuntu lucid ldxe / ldxm :

XOrg

bugs

Bugs (for IGP 320M):

[[News]]

[[Debian]] :

X11R6.8 is out: @ http://xorg.freedesktop.org

Sources : http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/src/

Hardware : http://freedesktop.org/XOrg/VideoDrivers

200404 version supports Radeon IGP (2D only)

http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/radeon.4.html#toc3

20040831 : Radeon driver updates: DRI support for IGP chips :

http://freedesktop.org/XOrg/XorgReleasePlan

http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/RELNOTES2.html#2

French http://linuxfr.org/2004/09/13/17196.html

http://www.freedesktop.org/~jg/xorg.avi

Info :

http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/index.html

http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/soapbox/article.php?articleID=5

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/08/125208

3D : http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building#head-c646af77bd5e292300f2302e4d23d810a930ce40

http://www.directfb.org/modules.xml

Compiling X11R6.8

cd /usr/local/src/
wget -p -r -l 1 http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/src/
ed2k_hash freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/src/* # 1&2=src 4&5=fonts  6&7=docs
# ed2k://|file|X11R6.8.0-src1.tar.gz|30560275|1cd73970c7b815cd8681c92d4b30ab72|
# ed2k://|file|X11R6.8.0-src2.tar.gz|5808901|0831c43f8f26fe578c47a8a08f674953|
# ed2k://|file|X11R6.8.0-src3.tar.gz|10014266|ef004cc479b41acdbd95b84ce454ffaf|
# ed2k://|file|X11R6.8.0-src4.tar.gz|13166526|f0dc33205ddb1a4367c5641d4fec0b45|
# ed2k://|file|X11R6.8.0-src5.tar.gz|4386145|2e7af2148de693a5950476aff6cb6329|
# ed2k://|file|X11R6.8.0-src6.tar.gz|3181068|9a32f71d607cb25c0709f9b4591e5beb|
# ed2k://|file|X11R6.8.0-src7.tar.gz|5052439|fb1fafa0423e22db08e1f1a8342ff0a1|
cd /usr/local/src
find freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/src/ \
  *name "X11R6.8.0-src*.tar.gz" -exec tar xvfz {} \;
du -ms /usr/local/src/xc
# 289	/usr/local/src/xc
uname -a
# [[Linux]] nrv 2.6.8.1-amiloa #1 Mon Aug 16 18:21:09 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
date
# Tue Sep 14 00:00:00 CEST 2004
nice -n 19 make World 2>&1 | tee >> log.txt
date; du -ms /usr/local/src/xc
# Tue Sep 14 00:01:20 CEST 2004
# 575	/usr/local/src/xc
su -
mv /etc/X11 /etc/X11-orig
mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-orig
mkdir -p /usr/local/opt/X11R6.8.0/etc/X11 /usr/local/opt/X11R6.8.0/usr/X11R6
ln -fs /usr/local/opt/X11R6.8.0/etc/X11   /etc/X11
ln -fs /usr/local/opt/X11R6.8.0/usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6
# /etc/fonts will be overwriten
make install
chmod -R a+rX /usr/X11* /etc/X11* # ?
# cp /etc/X11-orig/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# use "keyboard" Driver in config file (low case)
reboot
# if fails , restore links

I had some troubles , did i missed something ? :

There should be a more proper way to install it over Debian (with stow, dpkg hold …) is nt it ?

Well I give up for today,

Wanna help : http://who.is.free.fr/wiki/index.php?XWindow

Or from freshest sources (CVS) :

cd /usr/local/src/
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg login && \
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg co -P xc
# (hit return)
cd /usr/local/src/xc
cp config/cf/xorg.cf config/cf/host.def

cat « EOF » config/cf/host.def

/* + user settings @ http://rzr.online.fr/q/xorg */
      #define ProjectRoot /usr/local/opt/Xorg-6.8.0
      #define NothingOutsideProjectRoot YES
      #define DefaultGcc2i386Opt -O0 -g
      #define HasFreetype2 YES
      #define HasFontconfig YES
/* - user settings @ http://rzr.online.fr/q/xorg */

EOF

# EOF , and remove "?" if cut and paste from online ^
make World && make install

http://ruinaudio.com/xorg-cvs-howto.txt

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=204593

instructions:

xorg on [[Debian]] with [[Ubuntu]]

http://shadowconflict.blogspot.com/2005/01/ubuntus-xorg-on-debian-sid.html

xorg-common script linked on that page can't be found but things seem to work without it just fine

http://www.badopi.org/node/view/523

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.badopi.org/node/view/523&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.badopi.org/node/view/523%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%7Clang_fr%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff

http://incubator.vislab.usyd.edu.au/roller/page/Steve?catname=Debian

MISC

Does not Support Radeon IGP 320M on AmiloA Laptop https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1678

http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/radeon.4.html#toc3

http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building#head-c646af77bd5e292300f2302e4d23d810a930ce40

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