Mike, Thanks for the response. As of this evening my need for 4.3.0 under RH 7.3 became moot. I was caught in a box. My NIC was working under 7.3, but not 8.0. The 9000 was working under 8.0, but not under 7.3. With a bit if help from another list I managed to get the NIC up and going under 8.0, so I'm where I need to be for now. I'm running Pro Audio stuff (Alsa/Jack + Ardour/Rosegarden/...) And do not require any acceleration, but do require 1280*1024 which I was not getting under 7.3 with the generic VGA I had to install. Anyway, I'm running nice now, and happy that I do not need to mess with compiling the complete display system. Cheers, Mark On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 19:57, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 markknecht@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Hi, and thanks for the response. I will check out getting a copy of 4.3.0 > >this evening. I presume this will run on RH 7.3? > > XFree86 will run on anything, probably even Red Hat Linux 4.2. > You won't however get 3D acceleration support unless you're using > a 2.4.x kernel and compile your own kernel DRM modules for 4.3.0 > which the source code of is included in the 4.3.0 sources. > > If you've never compiled XFree86 before, then this could be a > daunting matter. > > > > RH 8.0 has support for this adapter, but my networking adapter (Broadcom- > >based) is not compiling under RH 8.0 correctly for me, while it does work under > >7.3 jsut fine. (Go figure...) > > > > Anyway, thanks for the pointer. > > There are no Red Hat Linux XFree86 4.3.0 RPM packages nor kernel > available to just drop into Red Hat Linux 7.3, so you probably > will have to roll your own. It's certainly possible to do, > however the build time dependancies you will encounter will > require you upgrade several things. In general, most people find > it is not worth the effort. It's much easier to just upgrade to > the latest release of Red Hat Linux and get the support for free, > as well as updates that come out. > > 4.3.0 will be supported in the next release which will be out > before too long. The 4.3.0 packages are rebuildable on Red Hat > Linux 8.0 without too much effort, but 7.3 will be a bit more of > a challenge. > > > -- > Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat > > > > _______________________________________________ > xfree86-list mailing list > xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
