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Topic: A quick guide on compiling XOrg 7.0 on DSL, Downloading, configuring & running howto

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Juanito

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Posted: June 19 2007,10:24

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.

curaga

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Posted: June 23 2007,09:34

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...

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Juanito

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Posted: June 24 2007,04:00

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

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Posted: June 30 2007,06:45

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

Juanito

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Posted: June 30 2007,10:42

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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...