On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:19:38AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:08:25PM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:39:30PM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > > My understanding is that the new X11 build support in build.sh is
> > > supposed to be working.  Is that correct?
> > > 
> > > I have just updated my AMD64 box.  X on my Radeon 9200 card
> > > has gone from working (with "vesa" and little or no acceleration)
> > > to failure.
> > > 
> > > In particular, X dies with a fatal error during its device probe.
> > > This happens whether I launch with "X -configure" or move my
> > > old (working) XF86Config to /etc and use "startx" as per normal.
> > [...]
> > > Anyone with expertise and interest for this?  Or should I grab a
> > > binary X11 install from somewhere (or maybe re-install the old set
> > > I had before)?  (Or is this a known problem?)
> > 
> > I just had a look, and noticed that PCI access with XFree was broken on
> > amd64 ...
> 
> Thanks.  I actually read some more of the info, and noticed that the
> ./build.sh wasn't (yet) supported for amd64.  All I'd gathered before
> was how to do it.  (sheepish grin)

amd64 support wad added a little later after the src/X11 cross-build
announce.

> What's the best way to build/install *just* the .../src/x11 tree?
> I don't really need to re-install the rest of -current, since that
> is already in place.  (^&

cd src/x11
make build
make install DESTDIR=/

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.