Has anyone yet installed Xorg 6.9 or 7.0 from source? I would absolutely love to have it, especially 7.0, but really wanted to avoid installing from source. At this point, it hardly seems worth waiting as best estimates put it at weeks or months, more than likely with release of SuSE 10.1 before SuSE releases the RPMs. There is still no sign from Guru or Packman they plan to release, and I cannot find RPMs still other places.

That leaves installing from source. And as much as I love doing that(gag me) that is what is left. However, there is no single file or even instruction set I can find on the net to install the new version, or even which files exactly I will need. So I would really appreciate anyone who has information about that kind of stuff pointing it out. I would really love to get a good guide there, as the documentation for X, while heavy, is not easily followed in my opinion.

Something like this? http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide I haven't had time to do it yet, but it looks interesting.

I haven't done it yet, and it will be a few weeks before I have the time to attend to it.

But, this is the guide I was planning on using:

http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/BUILD.html

Is that not what you're talking about?

Both of those are less than I was hoping for. Mainly in that the second one says you get tar.gzs which are from CVS, the main releases since the 21st don't have files by those names. The first one is better in terms of explaination, but it mentions nothing about which files you need. That is my problem, I am a linux... semi-noob. I know vast amounts about small corners of the linux world, and a broad spetcrum of the rest I know some, but stuff like this, very little. Without being handed the files I need, I can never pick all the right ones, which is why SuSE is my distro. For RPMs.

This HOWTO was written for Slackware but it should work for most linux distributions.