On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 09:57, Andreas Leitner wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 00:01, Bill Triplett wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 08:32, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > > > > > I own a AIW Radeon. The card works quite nicely with XFree 4.1, but some > > > features (TV Out, TV In, ...) will only work with X 4.2 + some special > > > drivers from the Gatos project. For those to try I need to hand compile > > > my own X (at least the gatos guys recommend this) and install it over my > > > existing X. > > > > > Now I have downloaded the sources of X 4.2 and did a "make World" on > > > them. But I really don't like installing X over my X 4.1 which I > > > installed via debs. Is there a chance to install it into some non > > > standard dir, just to try it out. > > > > That should do it. The real problem is when apt wants to update the > > xfree-packages during a routine apt-get update. I've been reading the > > manpage for apt_preferences(5), and there seems to be a way to manually > > keep apt from upgrading certain packages. I am not sure that I > > understand that process yet, but it is worth checking in to. Right now, > > if I see that apt wants to upgrade the x server stuff, I will switch the > > symlinks back to /usr/X11R6-dkpg and /etc/X11-dkpg before starting the > > upgrade. Ugh. > > Hmmm, that doesn't sound much of a good idea to me. Problem is: When you > upgrade any X application (not only X itself) it will install things in > /usr/X11 and/or /usr/X11R6 (correct me if I am wrong), so once you > upgrade anything you need to reinstall your x 4.2, because just renaming > the symlinks back would result in a terribly inconsistent system.
Yes, I know what you mean. You can install it somewhere else, just update your PATH and /etc/ld.so.conf to add the new directories so that you will be able to work with the new dir. Just watch out for it changing things in /etc/X11. Also, the compiled-in paths could be changed before the compile, too. That might be a better way to do it, as when you install the gatos drivers, it should pick up the alternate path when it creates the Makefile from the IMakefile. I have not tried that approach. The reason I installed over the debian one is that I had already installed some shared libs (like libxaw -- needed for xawtv) that I needed. I read a some more about apt_preferences(5) and made a little script that (i hope) is creating the proper entries in apt_preferences that will keep apt from automatically selecting the things installed in /usr/X11R6 for upgrade: #!/bin/bash for pk in `dpkg -S X11R6 | sed -e 's/[,:].*//' | sort | uniq` ; do v=$(dpkg --status $pk | grep "^Version" | sed -e 's/.*:[ ]*//'); echo "Package: $pk" echo "Pin: version $v" echo "Pin-Priority: 0" ; echo done # cut I tried a similar entry for xfonts-scalable-nonfree (which was just updated) and apt did not select it for upgrade, so I'm thinking that this will work for packages already installed. Your milage may vary... :) > But, thanks alot for your reply. It's good to know I am not the only one > trying. Btw, did you try the gatos X drivers as well? Did they work for > you? Yes... they are working quite well. The TV playback is virtually flawless. The capture is stil evolving, but it works for the most part. TV-out is a little unstable right now. I had it working last night, but the picture was a little off. It is very resolution / freq. / depth sensitive. Good luck... Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
