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Re: AGP Video cards
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> You just the server from 3.3.3.1,you can use everything else from the
> X that's available for Debian. I've done it countless times. Just
> download the binary server for your card from ftp.xfree86.org or a
> mirror, and replace the one you have with it.
one warning about this:
i've done the same (taking a current 3.3.3.1 X server for mach64 for an
old linux system - redhat 4.2) and encountered one problem - the X server
refused to run when SUID root, claiming for this to be a security problem,
and that Xwrapper should be used.
i further downloaded a copy of Xwrapper, and found out there's yet a
problem - my 'xinit' or 'startx' wants to find the server as
/usr/X11R6/bin/X - however, if i make this a symbolic link to Xwrapper, a
loop is formed, since Xwrapper also expects to find the X server at
/usr/X11R6/bin/X . what i ended up doing is set an alias named 'x', to
call 'xinit' with a parameter that tells it the X server is at
'/usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper' - and then leaving '/usr/X11R6/bin/X' as a
symbolic link to the actuall mach64 X server . this is ugly, but currently
works, and i didn't feel like digging out how to actually configure
Xwrapper to look for an X server under a different name then 'X'. if
anyone can comment on that - it'll probably help.
guy