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Re: XFree86-4.3

From: Mike A. Harris (mharrisredhat.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 04:47:38 CDT

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc wrote:

>>> So I did
>>> that yesterday, and it doesn't seem to be any faster in re-drawing
>>> stuff in XFree.
>>
>>Interesting; what did you try and what was the configuration (resolution
>>and depth, at least). And what kernel were you running?
>>
>
> Pretty much I didn't try anything, as soon as I booted the machine, kudzu
>found that the old Matrox was removed and a new Radeon was installed, then it
>ran Xconfigurator, from where I chose 1600x1200 at 24 bit (and 16 bit as well).
>After that I had same desktop as it was with Matrox (size, speed, colors).
>
>>> Then I thought I'd better upgrade XFree86 from 4.1
>>> (RH updates) to 4.3 (RawHide found on rpmfind.net). However in a
>>> process of doing so it seems I need to update glibc as well. The
>>> RawHide once cause some of the commands (rpm is one of them) to
>>> segfault.
>>
>>You may need to rebuild 4.3 from the source RPM, and even then, may
>>have to modify the build procedure to work with the RH 7.2 toolchain
>>rather than what is in RawHide.
>
> Should I also re-build glibc from SRPMs (or the source)? Would that be better
>to get the XFree 4.3 source instead and compiled it from there (I also remember
>there were some patches for it)?

Not unless you fancy porting our glibc to Alpha. ;o) However if
you are interested in doing so, it would be great.

>>In some ways, it is worth it, but there are some rough edges under 4.3
>>that aren't there in 4.1 from RH 7.2 Alpha. These can be seen in such
>>apps as tuxracer, and some of the screensaver apps (sproingies for
>>one)...
>
> I think I can live with that, as long as there will be some performance
>improvement over the old Matrox.

The Matrox driver has not changed much since 4.1.0 at all. You
wont see much improvement in performance as the driver isn't
actively developed.

--
Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat

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