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DSL has TinyX servers (4.6.0 XFree86, 2007) compiled for glibc 2.3.
Download from the Canadian (Quebec) mirror site - mydsl, testing.
Xfbdev Xchips Xsavage Xtrio Xi810 etc. (no neomagic)
About 700K binaries.
Dependencies are ld-linux, libc, libm, libz.

The newer 4.6.0 Xvesa (and Xfbdev?) supposedly let you change frequency to 
more than 60 Hz and also rotate.

DSL uses glibc 2.3.2.  These binaries won't work with 2.2.5 - they want 
GLIBC_2.3 (probably 2.3.2).

The DSL Xfbdev works in Slackware 11 (glibc 2.3.6)
xinit -- ./Xfbdev
Xsavage does not like my video card (which I think is a savage).

These precompiled TinyX servers would require a library upgrade.

libc.so.5.4.44 is 580K
libc-2.2.5.so is 5MB.  libm = 566K
libc-2.3.6.so is 1.42MB. libm = 168K

Why are the later libraries smaller?  Is there any reason not to use 2.3.6 
other than it won't work with 2.2 kernels?

Slackware 11 uses 2.4.31 kernel so this glibc should work with my kernels.

Slackware glibc 2.3.1 and later won't work with 2.2 kernel.

If I upgrade libraries past Slackware 9.9 (2.3.0) what I compile won't 
work with 2.2 kernel.  Will it be larger or smaller?

How does one compile TinyX servers, from the full X code? (Which is huge).


Sindi Keesan