Re: XFree86 CVS sources

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:23:09PM -0400, fh...@at... wrote:
> > I grabbed the XFree86 CVS sources and compiled them on
> > my APUS system.  The server evidenty did not compile.
> > The make complained about some tseng chip or something.
> >
> > Is the APUS compatible server available for download somewhere? I suppose
> > thats all I really need.  Everything else seemed to compile OK.
> 
> Did you try it with the released version ?
> 
> Also to upcome the above mentioned problem, just disable the compilation of
> the driver not really needed. Edit the
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers Imakefile and remove any driver that
> you think will not compile.

The better way is to copy xc/config/cf/xf86site.def to xc/config/cf/host.def
and edit at least the #define XF86CardDrivers line, it doesn't hurt to edit a
few other things there as well.


> (well i think only pm2 and fbdev is needed on apus, don't know about other
> graphic chips)

Right, only fbdev and glint are currently useful on APUS.


Michel


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