On 17 Oct 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >Date: 17 Oct 2002 22:48:18 -0500 >From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu> >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: XFree86 better i830 support? > >>>>>> "t" == tellurye <tellurye@bellsouth.net> writes: > >t> [...] have they released a newer version for XFree86 that addresses >t> this issue? > >They haven't released an update. The next version of XFree will have >much better support, but it's a serious pain to get at it. I pulled >down the current development sources and built them myself with a >config file extracted from a partial build of the Red Hat XFree RPM. >Then I installed the important chunks of it by hand. This makes a >mess of the system (since RPM doesn't know of the new files and >reports tons of verify errors) but the support is pretty much >flawless. (Well, 3D is still a mess, but 2D works great.) > >This will get easier when Red Hat starts playing with development >versions in Rawhide; you'll probably be able to pull various RPMS from >there and try them out without all of the pain. I've posted to this mailing list at least 4 times in the last week, of XFree86 CVS RPM packages on people.redhat.com. Not sure how you missed all of these postings. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
