First Experiences with X.org's X11 Server? 113
Slashdot Reader CanadianCrackPot decided to be adventurous and went and installed the latest offering from X.org's X-Server project. Below, you'll find "the basics" of his "first attempt to install [their] X Window Server on a system with a 450 MHz PIII, and Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2 chipset) graphics card, running Mandrake 10.0 Official (FTP download of everything but the RPMS.cooker dir)." To make a long story short, while he did have some luck with installing it, running it was...problematic. He asks: "I'm just wondering how other Slashdot readers are doing with the new X11R6 server, and more importantly, how did you install it?"
"I decided to try installing X.org's X Server today while I had nothing to do here's the results:
- get a test bed system: check
- get sources: check
- ./configure: N/A...I'm worried
- make World: check
- make install; make install.man: check
- startx: crash
- xf86config: check
- startx, again: check -- now I need a manager
- startgnome: galeon not found (crash)
- startkde: crash"
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gentoo (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Slack-current xorg packages worked (Score:4, Funny)
What? And settle for UN-OPTIMIZED binaries like some plebe? Forget that!
Besides, I had to grab the CVS from the DRI branch to get S3/SavageDDR (It's a laptop, I didn't have much choice...) direct-rendering support. Why not compile it up with "-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse,387" while I'm at it?...
Yes, I'm also running on bleeding-edge CVS compile of KDE 3.3-post-alpha as well (working fine for me, incidentally...)
Think of it as the civilized nerd equivalent of peeing on the computer to mark it as yours. Except that you don't ruin the computer and/or get painfully shocked in the process (uh, you know, or so I've HEARD....)
Re:obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
apt-get install xorg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xorg
Shit. Maybe by 2005?
Re:obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Hell, i'm using stable, still waiting for them to port that new fangled program I keep hearing about, what's it called... gopher?