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First Experiences with X.org's X11 Server?

Posted by Cliff on from the have-you-gotten-it-to-work-yet dept.

Slashdot Reader CanadianCrackPot decided to be adventurous and went and installed the latest offering from X.org's X-Server project. Below, you'll find "the basics" of his "first attempt to install [their] X Window Server on a system with a 450 MHz PIII, and Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2 chipset) graphics card, running Mandrake 10.0 Official (FTP download of everything but the RPMS.cooker dir)." To make a long story short, while he did have some luck with installing it, running it was...problematic. He asks: "I'm just wondering how other Slashdot readers are doing with the new X11R6 server, and more importantly, how did you install it?" "I decided to try installing X.org's X Server today while I had nothing to do here's the results:
  • get a test bed system: check
  • get sources: check
  • ./configure: N/A...I'm worried
  • make World: check
  • make install; make install.man: check
  • startx: crash
  • xf86config: check
  • startx, again: check -- now I need a manager
  • startgnome: galeon not found (crash)
  • startkde: crash"
If you've had any luck getting X.org's X-server running on your machine, what hurdles did you have to overcome before it worked?

2 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. Well... by andrewdk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All I know is that Gentoo makes it easy:

    (if you already have xfree installed)
    emerge unmerge xfree

    ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge xorg-x11

    xorgconfig or edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example

    Done. You just need to emerge Gnome or KDE (my fav is Fluxbox)

  2. Well... by DecayCell · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I was quite amazed, but
    emerge sync
    emerge -C xfree
    ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xorg-x11
    did it for me...

    Portage is an executable wonder! :)