DSL Tips and Tricks :: A quick guide on compiling XOrg 7.0 on DSL

Maybe - the first thing I found is that the i915 module is required for drm, the i830 works fine for everything else though. In DSL-N the i915 module is too old for drm, but everything else works OK.

If you get it below 100mb, upload it to Rapidshare.
Now it could also be split in two, but that 2,5h timeout between downloads for unregistered rapidshare downloaders is a bit much...

Mailed to Robert yesterday - hopefully it shouldn't take too long to get there...

Notes on (juanito's) extension:

- xcb libs do not seem to be included, so you cannot run xorgconfig as suggested by the .info (note that you'd also probably need to make a wrapper to see /opt/xorg72/lib, or see suggestion #2)

Confirmations:
- Originally I did not have enough memory, so I used symlink from /opt/xorg72 to a directory on a hard drive, and it did not work (permissions error upon startx). Increasing the memory seems to work, but I was not using any swap. Perhaps suggesting in the .info that a lot of memory is required? (512mb?) I wonder if this would work with a persistent /opt. I'm assuming doing a .tar.gz would work with my own builds of xorg as well... Perhaps this has to do with the .tar.gz unloading onto /ramdisk ?
- uci conversion working

Suggestions:
- I think for xorg.conf, using /etc/X11 is still common, and will probably take precedence before /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as well.
- suggest how to use the binaries in /opt/xorg72/bin (edit PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .xserverrc or create a source script that sets these)
- script to automagically make (a minimal) xorg.conf and edit .xserverrc

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- xcb libs do not seem to be included, so you cannot run xorgconfig as suggested by the .info

My mistake, I checked and it was in an earlier 185MB iteration of the extension. BTW, I didn't need to change the path to use it, just exit the window manager and use "sudo /opt/xorg72/bin/xorgconfig"

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Originally I did not have enough memory

Loading the .tar.gz uses 367MB on my machine - of course using a uci does not use a great deal.

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I think for xorg.conf, using /etc/X11 is still common

Correct (maybe I said this in the info file), xorg72 will look there before /etc - it will also try to use XF86Config-4 if it finds it there.

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script to automagically make (a minimal) xorg.conf and edit .xserverrc

If anybody would like to do this, please be my guest...

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