Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 09/08/2005-11:16:52(-0700): Donnie Berkholz types
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> | If you find bugs that aren't purely ebuild problems, do not file them at
> | bugs.gentoo.org -- go to bugs.freedesktop.org, in the xorg product.
> |
> | Two USE flags you will care about are "dri" and "glx" -- both are
> | necessary to get accelerated 3D.
>
> A few updates:
>
> I'm working on a Mesa ebuild to add; this will provide the gl.h
> everyone's been complaining about missing. My dev box is really screwy
> because of orphaned files, things lying around from CVS, etc, so I
> didn't realize this would actually be required until yesterday.
>
> Until then, just build xorg without glx.
>
> People have been trouble actually starting the X server, because it
> can't find the 'fixed' font. I suspect that the font-misc-misc package
> is either installing wrong, or the font tools are messed up. Replace the
> /usr/share/fonts/misc/ directory with one from an older install.
>
> Also there have been errors of the freetype/type1/trap modules not found
> on startx. They aren't yet built in xorg-server, so you may need to copy
> them over from an older install.

Ah...

It seems that the current xorg-server installs all modules in
/usr/lib/xorg/modules. Any idea why? It used to be /usr/lib/modules
until recently, and that's still where opengl-update symlinks stuff to,
and also where vnc and nvidia-glx put their own X modules.

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