Howto replace Xvesa with XFree86?

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Howto replace Xvesa with XFree86?
started by: penk

Posted by penk on July 20 2004,07:52

hi all,
due to the support of truetype, I want to remaster DSL and use XFree86 instead of Xvesa. In addition to "apt-get install xserver-xfree86", what should i do?

thanks, sorry if my english isn't correct.

Posted by AB-HD on July 20 2004,12:45

Would like to know that too; from what I read DSL is very fast, except from the X performance. As I do not need Gnome/KDE that would make my system very responsive but still capable enough to do some decent X based programs. Have not installed DSL yet, as I would like to know how this (and some other apt-get or other mechanism to expand DSL withsome usefull apps that I need).

Kind regards,
Aernoudt

Posted by cbagger01 on July 20 2004,16:10

Search the forums for xfree86 and install

I remember that Grim posted a pretty straightforward way to do this.

Posted by penk on July 21 2004,17:24

cbagger01: thanks for your reply!
Do you mean "< apt-get install x-window-system >" or something that i had missed?

Posted by cbagger01 on July 22 2004,02:22

I think that this is what I was thinking of when I replied.

Posted by RobF on July 23 2004,22:01

penk, did you manage to install X86free? If so, what did you do?

Robert