has anyone got a guide to building X (xorg) from source for slackware?
a step by step guilde would be nice...

thanks in advance...

you can pick-up the source here:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../source/x/x11/


and then use the provided build script:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...x11.SlackBuild

cheers!

just a quick one...

so if i do create a shadow directory and place the x11.SlackBuild file in eg .../xcbuild (which is the shadow directory) , then

bash-2.05$ ./x11.SlackBuild (inside the shadow directory)

it should create the *.tgz files

am i right?

thank in advance...

yeah, as long as all the source files are in the same directory as the build script, everything will be fine...

the *.tgz will be placed in the /tmp directory by default...

thanks...

yeah it built it and installed x11-6.7.0-i486-4.tgz which has been optimized for athlon-xp... but just have a query...

x11-fonts-100dpi-6.7.0-noarch-4.tgz and the other x11-fonts-...tgz are empty, i mean no fonts...

any ideas?

I also need some help. Maybe I should start a new thread, but this one looks like a specialized topic. I am trying to get the via unichrome drivers working. According to:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/displa...roup_id=102048
I need "a build tree of XFree 4.4 or later, which has been built once"
Then:
cd <build>/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers
cvs -z3 -dserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/unichrome co xfree86
rm -rf via
ln -s xfree86 via
make Makefiles
cd via
make
make install
cp via_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers (if necessary)
Restart the X server, Check in the X server log: (II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension.

I've copied the xorg source to ~/slack-pkg/source/x/x11/ and I'm looking at x11.Slackbuild now. Some questions:
1. What is a shadow directory and howto?
2. Are Slackware 10 xorg-X11R6.7.0 sources equivalent to XFree 4.4 or later?
3. My package install seems to be ok, so how do I just build without installing?
(it looks like only packages are made in /tmp/x11-build/package-x11, but I really want a build tree, and also it looks like some stuff in /usr tree gets changed )
4. Can I change GLIDE=$1 to GLIDE=NO ?
5. Do I need to compile fonts, and if not, how to avoid?
(looks to be handled: # If we have the precompiled fonts, use those)
6. Since I also downloaded XFree86-4.4-to-unichrome23-patch.bz2, can I use that by adding "bzip2 -cd <path to patch> | patch -p1 --backup --verbose --suffix=.orig -E" to the patching part of x11Slackbuild (and skip the cvs stuff above)? (If I do that, I'll probably need to install the new packages "upgradepkg"?)

I'm still learning Slackware, after using mandrake and then trying and giving up on gentoo.

This is a follow-up on my previous post, reporting progress so far. I'm trying to get the updated via unichrome drivers installed and working. BTW, I'm using a 2.6.7 kernel patched with the epia patch from http://epia.kalf.org/epia_kernel/.

The problems are no agp and poor 3d, but I just want all the features eventually.
With via driver that ships with xorg X11R6.7.0, Xorg.0.log reports:
***
(EE) VIA(0): [drm] drmAgpAcquire failed 1023
(II) VIA(0): [dri] use pci.
***
My method, using Slackware 10.0

1. download unichrome-X-R23.tar.gz from http://unichrome.sourceforge.net following the xfree86 link
2. copy xorg sources from cdrom to ~/downloads/slack-pkg/sources/x/x11/
3. cd to that directory and su root [password]
4. run x11.Slackbuild script (chmod 755 first). This builds and installs xorg.
5. cd /tmp/x11-build/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/
6. pwd (to be sure)
7 tar xvzf <path to unichrome-X-R23.tar.gz>
8. rm -rf via
9 mv unichrome-X-R23 via
10 chown -R root:root via (again, to be sure)
11. make Makefiles
12. cd via
13. make
14. make install

Result: there is a new via_drv.o file in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/

Perhaps there are more results, such as updated man pages or other files being installed, but I couldn't tell. Notably, there is no via_dri.o in the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri directory. The video screen seems a bit better.
Xorg.0.log now reports:
***
(II) VIA(0): [drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded
(II) VIA(0): [drm] agpAddr = 0xe0000000
(II) VIA(0): [drm] agpBase = (nil)
(II) VIA(0): [drm] agpAddr = 0xe0000000
(II) VIA(0): [drm] agpSize = 0x02000000
(II) VIA(0): [drm] agp physical addr = 0x00000000
(II) VIA(0): [dri] use agp.
***
Also, I discovered that the modprobe.conf file had to be edited so the agp modules loaded before the vis_v4l_drv was loaded.
# /etc/modprobe.conf
#
# === video
install via /sbin/modprobe via_agp; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install via; /bin/true

Perhaps this was all I needed from the beginning, but I thnk the updated unichrome driver is better.