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Re: Plans for XFree86 3.2 RPM's?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Lampert)
Mon Nov 11 20:50:09 1996

From: Scott Lampert <fortunato@altair.ioa.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:44:43 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <3287A719.DB7198E@iceonline.com> from "Borg" at Nov 11, 96 02:22:17 pm
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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>Erik Troan wrote:
>............
>> > Is there a timeline for this?  (Or do you plan to release XFree86 3.2
>> > in a new version of RedHat once you've recompiled everything with it?)
>> 
>> We will have 3.2 RPM's available RSN. I'm working on them now.
>
>[root@borg vlad]# rpm -qa | grep XF
>XFree86-libs-3.2-1
>XFree86-Mach64-3.2-1
>XFree86-fonts-3.1.2-11
>XFree86-3.2-1
>XFree86-devel-3.2-1
>[root@borg vlad]# 
>
>The problem I have with 3.2-1: I get this error each time
>after 'startx':
>
>[big snip]
>(**) Mach64: Color weight: 565
>(--) Mach64: Pixmap cache: 0 256x256 slots, 0 128x128 slots, 0 64x64
>slots
>(--) Mach64: Font cache: 0 fonts
>PEX extension module not loaded
>XIE extension module not loaded
>
>(and then X starts anyway)
>
>Anyone else noticed that? Should I upgrade fonts to 3.2 as well?


	You get those because PEX and XIE are modules now.  You need to add
the lines:

load "pex5.so"
load "xie.so"

in your XF86Config if you want those extensions loaded.

              -Scott

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