tyme Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 I've never done this before, but would like to do it now that I know how to optimize it for my architecture (athlon). That is, I want to rebuild XFree86 from source RPMs, but I'm unsure of which files I will need, and also the best place to find them at. So far I've only found: XFree86-4.3-5mdk.src.rpm will this be enough, or are there other src files I will need? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 IMHO that file is the only one you need. Once you rebuild the package rpm will create all the rpm binary packages for install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 yeah, i built that one last night. not sure why I asked the question when I was gonna build it anyways, but atleast in the future someone will be able to find the answer. the resultant files are the following: X11R6-contrib-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-devel-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-doc-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-libs-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-server-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.3-5mdk.athlon.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 it seems I've gotten myself into a problem here. when I attempt to start X now, after installing these new RPMs, i get the error: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! followed by: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I installed all the files that were previously installed, so I'm going to guess the problem is other font related RPMs that I need to re-install? any ideas? Thanks for the help! nevermind: this problem was fixed simply by restarting xfs in the manner of: # service xfs stop # service sfs start for some reason when I attempted a restart it sort of froze, so this way worked best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 I cannot help you to solve that problem, it can be caused by a high number of possibities (from a full /tmp partition, to a wrong compilation, passing by a socket error). There should be some clues in the logs (system and X). Meanwhile if you want to test your brand new X compilation you can override the font problem changing in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 the: FontPath "unix/:-1" to FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/" HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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