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Subject: Re: KDE REFUSES TO WORK!!!
From: "Terry" <lawnman1 () soltec ! net>
Date: 1999-10-03 17:56:17
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Thanks for your enthusiastic reply Scott............but I gleamed from his
responses that SVGA wasn't working for his card. Trying the S3V server is
not going to cause any harm.
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Corey <sbcorey@azstarnet.com>
To: KDE User List <kde-user@lists.netcentral.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: KDE REFUSES TO WORK!!!
> On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Terry wrote:
> > You most likely need the S3V server..........you need to set the link
for
> > XF86_S3V in /etc/X11 as "X"(uppercase). In for instance your XF86_S3V
is in
> > /usr/X11R6/bin. . .then you need to do "ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V
> > /etc/X11/X". Good Luck
> >
> NO NO NO!!
> According to the master Xfree86 video card list
> S3 ViRGE/GX2 (generic) ................................. XF86_SVGA
> so you need this server!!!
>
> > On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Brent A. wrote:
> > > Richard and John,
> > > I downloaded the newest version of XFree86-xfs, XFree86-SVGA and
XFree86-S3V
>
> The following are required when upgrading from version 3.3 or later:
>
> preinst.sh Pre-installation script
> postinst.sh Post-installation script
> extract XFree86 extraction utility
> Xbin.tgz Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
> Xdoc.tgz Documentation
> Xlib.tgz Data files required at run-time
> Xman.tgz Manual pages
> Xset.tgz XF86Setup utility
> XVG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
>
> The following are optional.
>
> Xf100.tgz 100dpi fonts
> Xfcyr.tgz Cyrillic fonts
> Xfnon.tgz Other fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew)
> Xfscl.tgz Scalable fonts (Speedo and Type1)
> Xfsrv.tgz Font server and config files
> Xprog.tgz X header files, config files and compile-time libs
> Xnest.tgz Nested X server
> Xvfb.tgz Virtual framebuffer X server
> Xprt.tgz X Print server
> Xps.tgz PostScript version of the documentation
> Xhtml.tgz HTML version of the documentation
> Xjdoc.tgz Documentation in Japanese (for version 3.3.4)
> Xjhtm.tgz HTML version of the documentation in Japanese
(3.3.4)
> Xlkit.tgz X server LinkKit
> Xlk98.tgz X server LinkKit for PC98 servers
>
>
>
> If you already have a version of XFree86 installed, MAKE A BACKUP OF
> /usr/X11R6 BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. The standard installation
> procedure will overwrite your existing version of XFree86.
>
> If you are installing from scratch, create a directory called /usr/X11R6,
> then extract the required .tgz files. If you don't have enough space in
/usr for
> this, create a directory elsewhere and create a symbolic link to it. E.g.,
> if you create a directory in /home:
>
> mkdir /home/X11R6
> ln -s /home/X11R6 /usr
>
> The next step is to run the pre-installation script. This script makes
some
> preliminary checks of your system. For some OSs, it may tell you to
install
> new versions of some system components before proceeding with the
> installation. This script may also remove some outdated files and symbolic
links
> from a previous installation that could cause problems.
>
> For the purposes of these installation instructions, it is assumed that
> you have downloaded all the files to the /var/tmp directory. If you've put
> them in another directory, that's fine -- just replace all occurrences of
> ``/var/tmp'' with the name of that directory.
>
> To run the pre-installation script, go to /usr/X11R6 and run it:
>
> cd /usr/X11R6
> sh /var/tmp/preinst.sh
>
> The next step is to make the installation utility executable.
> To do this, make sure the `extract' file is in the same directory as all
the
> X*.tgz files, and run the following from that directory:
>
> chmod 755 extract
>
> The installation utility ``extract'' is used to unpack the .tgz files that
> make up the XFree86 distribution. The .tgz files are gzipped tar files.
> However, ``tar'' in its standard form on most OSs is not well-suited to
the
> task of installing XFree86. The extract utility is a modified version of
GNU
> tar 1.12 built with the options required to make it suitable for
installing
> XFree86. The source for extract is available from the same place you got
the
> XFree86 distribution.
>
> It is strongly recommended that you use the provided extract utility to
unpack
> the XFree86 distribution. If you choose to ignore this and use something
> else, we don't want to hear from you if you run into problems.
> It is also important that you do not rename the extract utility. If
renamed,
> it behaves just like the normal GNU tar.
>
> To extract the XFree86 binaries, run the following as root:
>
> cd /usr/X11R6
> /var/tmp/extract /var/tmp/X*.tgz
>
> Once the required .tgz files have been extracted, run the post
installation script:
>
> cd /usr/X11R6
> sh /var/tmp/postinst.sh
>
> For OSs which use ldconfig, you may need to run ldconfig or
> reboot to complete the installation. The postinst.sh script should run
> ldconfig correctly for you if you are using Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or
OpenBSD.
> For other OSs that use ldconfig, check how it normally gets run at boot
time.
>
> Once the installation is complete, you should run the one of the
> configuration utilities (XF86Setup or xf86config) to configure the X
server.
> This is essential for a new installation but optional for an existing
> installation.
>
> > > and installed them, but KDE and the other X servers still
> don't work!!! > --
> >
>
> ain't teknolergy wunnerful?
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