On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, EXT-Holvenstot, Christopher wrote: > I am currently one of a group of people who are charged with rehosting the > International Space Station's PCS platform from an IBM 750XD ThinkPad running > Solaris X86 2.5 to the newer IBM A31p ThinkPad running a stripped down > version of Red Hat Linux 9.0. > One of the ongoing minor problems we have had is that from time to time, when > the display shifts from text mode to graphical mode (or back) it gets > "jumbled" - sort of like the horizontal refresh rate is not detected > correctly (if there is such a thing on a laptop's LCD screen) > We have found that upgrading from the 4.3 version to the 4.4 version of > XFree86 appears to remedy this problem. > However, there is one minor issue that I am trying to deal with - the > construction of a 4.4 RPM which will fit into our automated install process - > all version 4.4 testing to date has been done using X installed using the > XFree86 supplied install scripts and the requisite truckload of tgz files > downloaded from the XFree86 website. > I have downloaded and reviewed several version 4.4 RPM bundles, but they all > seem to have one common issue - they require glibc to be at higher level than > the version 2.3.2 we have. > For us this is a major problem - we are so far along in getting our system > qualified for manned space flight that there is major resistance to making > any core system change. So, like a dummy, I decided to start down the road > of building my own XFree86 4.4 RPM. > For the most part this has gone OK - all of the required files arrear to end > up in the right place. However, when you bring x up you get a number of > messages saying that there was an error loading shared libraries - > specifically libXmuu.so.1 and libX.so.6. > I have verified that these files are actually on the system. If I come up in > single user mode and manually start the configuration routine I do get the > graphical screen with the "X" cursor. > The files in question do reside in /usr/X11R6/lib - but this path does not > show up in the path statement or in LD_LIBRARY_PATH on either a functional > system, or the one that I built which is slightly less than functional. > What am I missing here? Any suggestions? `man ldconfig`? But, perhaps, I'm stating the obvious... Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
