Re: XDM configuration

[Mark H. <mar...@xs...>]

Hi Svetljo,


I've been reading your howto again (also because I want to
tweak more on my system now, like the arts deamon, and
I've installed gdm, which looks great on Gentoo b.t.w. :-),
here are my findings:

In section 1.1:
	kernel 2.4 & 2.5 patches are mentioned, perhaps you can add 
	reference to 2.6 patches as well?

In section 4.4.:
	Under Backstreet Ruby, each console is represented by 8 tty's:
		VGA: tty0 to tty7
		DUMB1: tty8 to tty15
		DUMB2: tty16 to tty23

I think this is outdated, if I understand correctly, it should now
read:
		current console: tty0
		VGA: tty0 to tty16
		DUMB0: tty17
		DUMB1: tty18
		etc.

(at least on my 2.6 system I'm using tty7 & tty17 as consoles)


In section 6.1 you can add:

	Gentoo uses:
		/etc/X11/XF86Config
		/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers for xdm
		/usr/kde/<kde version>/share/config/kdm/Xservers for kdm

And in section 6.2:

	Gentoo uses:
		/etc/X11/XF86Config
		/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf for gdm


I'll get back to you when I've got my artsd & input agent running ;-)



> > Modified X server binary for Gentoo (based on 4.3.0-r2 package)
> > can be found here (2Mb):
> > http://hoth.xs4all.nl/~hurenkam/linuxconsole/XFree86-prefid
>
> this could probably go to Aivils web site :-)
> + available to those that haven't read the howto
> + available from 5 mirrors (in Latvia,Germany, UK ,USA
>
> please send me also Gentoo version, gcc & glibc version
> and i'll write to Aivils or you can also write him
I'm running Gentoo-1.4rc1, but I keep it up-to-date, which
means it's comparable to what you can download/install
right now.

gcc version 3.2.3 (Gentoo package gcc-3.2.3-r1)
glibc version 2.3.2 (Gentoo package glibc-2.3.2-r2)

> > I also created a package (62Mb), but haven't tested it, I just
> > took the binary before I packaged it:
> > http://hoth.xs4all.nl/~hurenkam/linuxconsole/xfree-4.3.0-r2.tbz2
> >
> > Beware, I have a slow uplink (~15kb/s), so if I can put it elsewhere
> > that would be nice :-)
>
> it's a source right?
> i was afraid of that( that was the only thing that poped in my head when
> you mentioned gentoo)
> the problem is that i also don't have much web space and it's not a very
> fast link :(
No, it is not source, it's a binary package (like normal .rpm), but packaged
for Gentoo ebuild system.
If I have some time to play around, I'll see if I can get a modified ebuild
script put together so that people can build their own XFree using the
gentoo ebuild command. (That's a rather new area for me, so it may
take a while before I figure it out :-( )

> have you worked with rpm? can't you prepare a package similar to my XFree
> source rpm's
> my src rpms look like:
> - we need a compiled XFree tree in the rpm build directory
> - we link the XF tree to a new durectory (lndir -silent -ignorelinks)
> - patch the new directory, cd to xc/programs/Xserver && make
> - then install only the additional modified binary
Sounds pretty much like what I did on my Gentoo system... :-)

> do you think you can make similar package under gentoo?
I'll try the ebuild first (that's gentoo native after all :-), if I can't get 
it to work, I'll try the rpm approach (which is just as new to me :-( ).


Regards,
Mark.