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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg-modular...
  • Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:56:41 +0100

Robin Cook wrote :

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> Okay, I have the xog-modular install and running here. I am sure there
> are some depends that I have missed. I have created profile spells to
> cast the section for all but the xorg-xserver ,xorg-doc, and xorg_extras
> sections. The build order that is on the web site is xorg-util,
> xorg-proto, xorg-libs, xorg-server, xorg-app, xorg-data, xorg-font.
> There will be spells form later sections that will cast with earlier
> sections because of dependencies but that is the order for the most of
> the sections.
>
> Some notes:
>
> Files are no longer installed in /usr/X11R6.
> All files are in these directories:
> /usr/include/X11 - all header files (mainly the xorg-proto section)
> /usr/lib - the xorg-libs install mainly here
> /usr/lib/X11 - the xorg-apps install mainly here
> /usr/lib/xorg - the xorg-drivers install here
> /usr/share/X11 - app-defaults and some files from libx11. rgb, and xman
> xorg-server installs across all of them.
>
> Because of this you will need to change the paths in your xorg.conf.
> Also I had to change my mouse protocol from auto to imps/2 as the scroll
> wheel stopped working when it was auto.
>
> All the directories that were in /etc/X11 are now in /usr/lib/X11 except
> for app-defaults which is now in /usr/share/X11. Not sure if these will
> need symlinks for other spells to work or not. (app-defaults, fs,
> libproxy, proxymngr, rstart, xdm, xinit, xsm)
>
> I have not added any symlinks to the spells yet. I have three symlinks
> I manually created but not sure if the are actually needed. /usr/X11
> -> /usr, /usr/X11R6 -> /usr, /etc/X11/xkb -> /usr/lib/X11/xkb
>
> Also a CONFLICTS file probably needs to be added to all the xorg-modular
> spells with all the other xfree and xorg spells in it.
>
> xkeyboard-config is recommended over xkbdata, as xkbdata is no longer
> maintained. They will me switching to xkeyboard-config on the next
> releases.
>
> There is a custom mesalib spell in the xorg-util section as xorg-modular
> no longer has it integrated into it.
>
> I have a custom nvidia_driver and nvidia_header spells that will need to
> be integrate once xorg-modular is put into the devel grimoire.
>
> Other spells that I know need to be tested, but I haven't had a chance
> to yet:
> nas
> xaw3d
> lesstif
> artwiz-fonts
> gv
> groff
> xscrabble
> xscreensaver
>
> CuZnDragon
> Robin Cook
>
>
>
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I'll try getting this installed on my laptop without any X available to
see how it goes...

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