Good idea, Emanuel. I've never installed X this way, but I'd be interested to read how.
Jesse On Thu, 29 May 2003, Emmanuel wrote: > Hi all, > to enable people to become testers/janitors for XFree I want to put a > small howto online describing the easiest way to install XFree (compil > CVS and install) WITHOUT messing the current install of X (coming with > the distro). This is crucial as I think a lot of people are held back > from testing XFree because of the install problem. > Note that the goal is really to be able to fully install XFree in > parallel of the current install without interference (or just as few as > possible, and in that case the howto should mention it to warn people). > For now my only source of doc is the install-x.org file in cvs. So I > know about the ".def" files and ProjectRoot, but I tried with that and > it has messed up my current install (changed my fonts, the xinit > files...). > Please help me by giving me pointers or write a few lines about your > personnal way of doing it. I'll try to do a mix of all that and put > something online. > Thank you > Bye > Manu > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
