XFree86 4.3 released!

darktux · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p xfree
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akb · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject:

simply emerge xfree merges an old version, 4.3.0 is not yet into "stable" tree, so you have to emerge /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.3.0.ebuild directly (or whatever the package is called)

idl · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 6:08 pm Post subject:

emerged and working fine

allthough X still uses a lot of memory (160meg here)
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TecHunter · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 124

after i emerge xfree-4.3.0.ebuild,it just say freetype-2.1.0-r1 is masked;then i emerged freetype2.1.0-r2.ebuild;then it says xftXXX is masked..................
my gentoo has not emerge xfree before.can i emerge --nodeps xfree4.3.0.ebuild to avoid this problem???
if not,how can i do???

akb · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 6:18 pm Post subject:

uh, i merged it with --nodeps and it works fine. also because of this freetype error. got a newer one than it wanted to merge.

edit: i mean i merged xfree with --nodeps, not freetype

b-llwyd · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 6:26 pm Post subject:

narensankar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 109

Just updated to XFree 4.3, and had problems with kdm hanging. I was running 4.2.99.902 before, so this was surprising. Browsed the forums and it seems like I needed to emerge fontconfig after emerging XFree 4.3.

Maybe this is something for everyone to do to avoid problems.

lanius · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 160

I just emerge 4.3 and some of my fonts are broken, for example helvetica or times. I can't display them antialiased, just without. Anybody experieng the same problem?

jufoa · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

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floam · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject:

DONT emerge it with --nodeps, just add the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS bit to your make.conf

darktux · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:45 pm Post subject:

Exci · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:50 pm Post subject:

bleh

When i want to use another theme as core, my second (xinerama) screen is annoying me with 2 white lines and a normal(core theme) cross mouse cursor, it happens with the core theme too, but the first time I enter the second screen it's gone :/

axxackall · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 12:00 am Post subject:

Exci · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 12:02 am Post subject:

you don't have to modify anything, just do a emerge rsync

BlockFin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 107

Excuse me for being an idiot. To get hardware acceleration for my Voodoo5, I had to emerge xfree (4.2.1), emerge glide-v3, and emerge xfree again. I had trouble comprehending why I had to do this... will I have to do it again to upgrade to xfree-4.3.0?

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s0be · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 240

I don't know why the ATI drivers aren't working with 4.3. It's possible that they use hooks in the x core that are now 'deprecated.' The MGA drivers(matrox g400 max is what I have) work fine with 4.3 for me.

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Yans · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 11:01 am Post subject:

joshdr77 · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 180

im compiling xfree 4.3 now and this message came up

Elm0 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 281 Location: UK

Hmmm... I expect its re-compiling all your old perl modules, or apps emerged against the old libperl. Bit unusual that its come up during the xfree emerge, was libperl one of the depedancies in emerge -p xfree ?

I tried some if the new icon themes, but I've forgotten what the old setting was :oops:

Could someone tell me what the default contents for the file:

darktux · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 8:39 pm Post subject:

hakan · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject:

Xfree 4.3 starts very slow. Is that a common problem?
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