Xfree86 4.1.0

Patrick

Hi all. I use debian 2.2r3 and I just did a clean install. It comes with XFree86 3.x.x but I need 4+ because I've an nvidia card that's not support in anything under 4+.
Did anyone try installing it with the install.sh on the cd which came with Linux Format issue 17? Well I tried it and I had to rename all the tgzs before it would go through. Now it's installed but if try running xf86config I get this:

'./xf86config: error in loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dir.'

Does that mean I'm missing some libs? If so is there a deb I can get with them all? which one?

flamegrill

XFree86 -config, try that and see what it says. i think 4.x uses that commaind line to config XFree

otherwise didi you remove xfree 3.x ? if you didnt remove both of them now. and then go back and install 4 and it should work fine.

oh and also do this first maybe "locate libXext.so.6" where ever that is, if its on ur system copy it to where xfree libs are and also /lib. its kinda hard to tell you exactly what to do when u have no nix machine at arms length.

if none of that works, post back

Regards,

Paul

Patrick

Ok I moved all the X libs in to /lib and it worked and made a config file. BUt running startx produced more errors. Basically it's alll ****ed as far as I'm concerned. SO I removed all traces of X off the sstem. I want to get it as a .deb. Do you use debian? If so could you post your sources.list please as a search for X just gives X3.x.x so they're out of date.

flamegrill

i dont use debian, but i checked http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ for the debian mirror and all the X packages were 3.x i also checked http://ftp.sunet.se for their debian mirror and it was the same. so im not too sure if there is an xfree 4.x package for debian yet.

ill get back to you on it.

datio

add deb ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian testing main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list

then use apt-get install x-window-system
this should install 4.1.0-14

if you want to do any opengl or play videos at a decent speed (with the xv extension) you're probably going to need the linux drivers from www.nvidia.com as well as the debs

ObeyGiant

For the love of god, do not do what datio just suggested. Throwing "testing" packages onto your "stable" box will more than likely do very bad things.

Unless, of course, you want to upgrade completely to "testing" - but be warned, if you're new to this whole "linux" malarky, you might find it tough going, it's called "testing" for a reason... they're still testing it, and things can and WILL go wrong.
Also, upgrading an entire box over dialup is quite costly, be warned.

Did you do what flamegrill suggested?

locate libXext.so.6

if that returns something, do

cp /dir/with/libXext.so.6 /lib

if it doesn't, libXext.so.6 is part of the "xlib6g" package - just do

apt-get install xlib6g

and run the install.sh script again.