Installing Xorg 7.3 manually

Q.. · 09-07-2007, 01:11 AM

This might be a little early to ask, but are there any tutorials that make it easy to install Xorg 7.3 for the first time? I ask because the existing ones for previous versions seem to be obsolete.

bathory · 09-07-2007, 01:54 AM

Did you try the instructions from x.org. They refer to 7.1 but I've used them to build 7.2 with no problems, so I guess there will be no problem for 7.3 also.

Regards

Q.. · 09-07-2007, 07:03 PM

There's a stupid thing called xcb with bad instructions on how to build and forces you to fiddle around with git. I never use git. I thought as much. Going to have to fiddle through it myself.

Q.. · 09-07-2007, 11:21 PM

I'm doing this with the build-from-tarballs.sh script passing:

./build-from-tarballs.sh -e -m /home/user9/Mesa-7.0.1 /tmp/modular

I installed libxcb, pixman, got through that, to reach this error.

Code:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user9/xorg7.3/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user9/xorg7.3/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2/src'
if /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..    -Wall -g -O2 -I/tmp/modular/include/xorg -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/tmp/modular/include    -I../src -MT evdev_drv_la-evdev.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/evdev_drv_la-evdev.Tpo" -c -o evdev_drv_la-evdev.lo `test -f 'evdev.c' || echo './'`evdev.c; \
        then mv -f ".deps/evdev_drv_la-evdev.Tpo" ".deps/evdev_drv_la-evdev.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/evdev_drv_la-evdev.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -Wall -g -O2 -I/tmp/modular/include/xorg -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/tmp/modular/include -I../src -MT evdev_drv_la-evdev.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/evdev_drv_la-evdev.Tpo -c evdev.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/evdev_drv_la-evdev.o
evdev.c: In function 'EvdevReadInput':
evdev.c:95: warning: format '%ld' expects type 'long int', but argument 6 has type 'unsigned int'
evdev.c: In function 'EvdevSwitchMode':
evdev.c:239: warning: implicit declaration of function 'xf86XInputSetSendCoreEvents'
evdev.c: In function 'EvdevNew':
evdev.c:267: error: 'struct _LocalDeviceRec' has no member named 'motion_history_proc'
evdev.c: In function 'EvdevParseBits':
evdev.c:348: warning: implicit declaration of function 'set_bit'
make[2]: *** [evdev_drv_la-evdev.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user9/xorg7.3/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user9/xorg7.3/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Now I don't know what the problem is. Any help?

bathory · 09-08-2007, 08:01 AM

git is like cvs or svn, you use it to get the latest sources.
You should use the "-n" option, so the build script does not stop in the 1st error. According to the instructions, run:

Code:

$ PATH=/tmp/modular/bin:$PATH ./build-from-tarballs.sh -m /home/user9/Mesa-7.0.1 -n /tmp/modular > build.log 2>&1

Then you can check build.log to find the errors and try to fix those that are significat to you. I.e. if you don't need xf86-input-evdev you should not care about the error you got. You can also comment out things that you don't need directly in the build-from-tarballs.sh script, so you'll get less errors

Q.. · 09-08-2007, 12:28 PM

The building wiki at X.org isn't very useful to users like me according to what I've seen and at this point no longer even lists all the dependencies you really need. It was the first thing I tried. I read all of it already. Ignoring errors isn't going to solve anything for me. It's just going to leave me with a broken Xserver. If input-evdev has something to do with hotplugging, then I do need it. Even if I log them, I need to know how to avoid these errors.

jay73 · 09-08-2007, 01:50 PM

Which distribution are you running? Suse can install it from its repositories but I'm not aware of any others that are offering packages yet.

Q.. · 09-08-2007, 04:05 PM

I am on Fedora 6 running kernel 2.6.22.6, and not even Fedora 7 will offer it since they never do.

But I got something installed. X runs, but it feels like there are things missing and a lot of x applications fail, like xrandr.

Code:

xrandr: symbol lookup error: xrandr: undefined symbol: XRRGetScreenSizeRange

So hooray for ignoring errors.

Q.. · 09-08-2007, 04:55 PM

Ok, I fixed that error, but in doing so, the cursor icon is stuck on the X default. I just said screw it and copied over the created X11 binaries and libraries to /usr/lib and /usr/bin - that's where Fedora has them by default anyways. And the wacom driver doesn't even work right, while the Xorg log shows no error that it failed to load. I guess it needs to be updated to support new Xorg version, or is it just not setup right? This new Xorg version supposedly supports hot plugging these kinds of devices without the failure from before, that's all I wanted to get working, but I guess not, and the proprietary video driver won't install either, so I can't use it anyways. Going to have to wait months for an answer I guess.

Thanks for your time.

bathory · 09-08-2007, 05:07 PM

Quote:

But I got something installed. X runs, but it feels like there are things missing and a lot of x applications fail, like xrandr.

Code:

xrandr: symbol lookup error: xrandr: undefined symbol: XRRGetScreenSizeRange

So hooray for ignoring errors.

You should add the path to the new X libs (/tmp/modular/libs) in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and also add the above dir in /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig befoe trying to recompile parts of X that have failed. Copying the new libraries in /usr/lib isn't going to solve your problem.

Q.. · 09-08-2007, 06:56 PM

The LD_LIBRARY_PATH already points to /usr/lib/xorg and I also copied the appropriate directory there (I failed to mention that). Something is scrambled either way,

Also, /etc/ld.so.conf only points to a directory ld.so.conf.d and I can't find what is the relevant file to change there. I tried setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile and bash_profile but that doesn't work too well. That's why I just copied the files that matched to where the paths were already configured. But apparently that's not the best idea.

bathory · 09-09-2007, 09:05 AM

You should alter LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the xorg-7.3 libs right before trying to recompile things that have failed to compile the first time. I.e if you want to recompile libXrand and link it against the 7.3 Xlibs you should:

Code:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/modular:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=/tmp/modular/bin:$PATH
cd /home/user9/xorg7.3/libXrandr
make clean
./configure --prefix=/tmp/modular
make
make install

Copying the 7.3 Xlibs over the old Xlibs is going to break things that use the old Xlibs.
Also you could just add /tmp/modular/libs in /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root to cache the new Xlibs.

Q.. · 09-10-2007, 06:01 PM

libXrand isn't what failed, one thing that failed is xf86-input-void, and trying to compile it on it's own also fails even setting the path as above. The build.log is 7.5mb and 50000+ lines. And I'm not too sure what you mean by 'things that use old libs'. I uninstalled the xserver in the package manager, that stuff shouldn't be there. If it is, what a mess.

btbx · 10-24-2007, 06:30 AM

I plan to build X.org 7.3 from scratch using Build scripts.
I have the same "make" problem to the one posted by Q..

Struct LocalDeviceRec has no member called "motion_history_proc".

According to Q.. this problem is fixed, but there is no explanation.

Other X-Windows drivers (vmmouse, acecad etc) also have the same problems.

How to solve this problem?

Thank you.

bathory · 10-25-2007, 06:20 AM

I've managed to install Xorg 7.3 last week using the tarballs in the everything directory. After installing Mesa and xcb, the only things that failed to compile at the first try were xf86-input-evdev, xf86-input-vmmouse and xf86-input-void. (Note that xserver was working flawlessly without them and that I've commented out other drivers not needed, in the build-from-tarballs.sh script).
The error for xf86-input-evdev was similar to the one mentioned from the OP. Anyway to make things short I solved the probs creating a symlink to my kernel include/linux directory into the Xorg installation directory:

Code:

ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /path/to/X11R7.3/include/

and then getting via git the latest drivers that failed to compile:

Code:

git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev
git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse
git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-void

For each one of the above I ran as per the instructions:

Code:

export ACLOCAL="aclocal -I /path/to/X11R7.3/share/aclocal"   <--this needs to be run once
./autogen.sh --prefix=/path/to/X11R7.3
make
make install

Hope that helps