On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Paul R. Ganci wrote: >Oops, my mistake. Indeed on my Shrike disc 1 I have 4.3.0-2 versions of >XFree. I am running a Radeon 8500le video card. DRI did not work for >this card under the XFree4.2. With XFree4.3 DRI support became >available. So instead of waiting for Red Hat 9 I actually downloaded the >XFree-4.3.0-2.1.src.rpm from rawhide and compiled it under Psyche Kernel >2.4.20-2.54. Apparently when I upgraded to Shrike the install was clever >enough to realize I had a newer version of XFree than was on the >installation disc so it left it. Hence I am running the rawhide version >of XFree86 so perhaps you do have to upgrade to XFree-4.3.0-2.1 to get >the build to work after all. Sorry. > >Of course this means I should probably recompile XFree for the Shrike >2.4.20-8 kernel. Like I said in my first EMail ... I was lucky. FWIW I >have had absolutely no problems with XFree-4.3.0-2.1. No, you will not gain anything at all by recompiling XFree86, regardless of what kernel you are using. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
