Cannot run xf86config after upgrading to 4.5.0 on Slackware 9.0
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Distribution: Mainly Debian and Mepis, but also Slackware, Arch and Mandriva
Posts: 73
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Cannot run xf86config after upgrading to 4.5.0 on Slackware 9.0
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.
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)
Distribution: Mainly Debian and Mepis, but also Slackware, Arch and Mandriva
Posts: 73
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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! )
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