Re: XFree86-4.3

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:37:51AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 
> >You may need to rebuild 4.3 from the source RPM, and even then, may
> >have to modify the build procedure to work with the RH 7.2 toolchain
> >rather than what is in RawHide.
> 
> Definitely requires a lot of work to work in 7.2.

I do not know about "a lot".  Quite a while ago I recompiled on 7.2
installation one of early srpms of XFree86-4.3 on Alpha.  It required
few tools/libraries, like correct versions of freetype, but not much
else was involved.  It is true that such recompilation requires a
sizeable chunk of a free disk space (count around 1 Gig with some
reserve) and takes a considerable time but otherwise it was rather
uneventfull.  What I got from that works "good enough" in my particular
setup so I never repeated that exercise with updated srpms but after
configuring out things like TLS I would be somewhat surprised if much
would change.

> >>   Is there any better was to get XFree86-4.3 with support for Radeon? Is it
> >> worth the effort?

For me this made a difference between an unusable graphic card
(Radeon 7500) and a card which works rather nicely.

   Michal