Hello,

I recently installed Slackware 9.0 on my box and immediately updated XFree86 from 4.3.0 to 4.5.0 in order to support my graphics card (ATI Radeon 9600). I extracted the source tarballs and created a shadow directory, as per BUILD.txt, and proceeded to follow the rest of the instructions.

root@decentinator[tty1]:/foo/xfree86-4.5.0/test/build# make World > World.log 2>&1

root@decentinator[tty1]:/foo/xfree86-4.5.0/test/build# make install

root@decentinator[tty1]:/foo/xfree86-4.5.0/test/build# make install.man

There didn't seem to be any errors during the compilation process, however, when I attempted to run xf86config, I received the following error:

xf86config: error while loading shared libraries: libxkbfile.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Checking in /usr/X11R6/lib, there is a file called libxkbfile.so.1 which appears to be a symlink to libxkbfile.so.1.0.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Ansel.

Welcome to LQ!

I know that on later versions of slackware (10.0 etc) it has switched to xorg (a fork of xfree86) If upgrading slackware isn't possible for you, try installing xorg. (xorgconfig)

hope this helps
titanium_geek

Hi,

Thanks gor the advice, however I managed to get it working by removing the build directory, recompiling, and rebooting once it was complete. (It's obviously possible *without* rebooting, but I don't know how! )

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Ansel.