[Peeweelinux] Upgrading XFree86 in peewee

[Troy Engel]

Hi Ashley,

My personal approach would be to grab a set of stock Redhat SRPMS that 
contain the driver necessary for your chipset, and then rpm --rebuild 
them on a Redhat 6.2 machine. Preferrably RH7.3 (as it's pretty 
compatible with 6.2), but it appears XFree 4.2.1 is the latest ever made 
for 7.3.

It's probably possible to rebuild the 9.0 SRPM on a 6.2 machine, but you 
may have to tweak it a little. If nothing else, you could extract the 
.spec file from a 9.0 SRPM, and use the compile logic to hand compile 
the 4.3.0 on a Redhat 6.2 box then. I've done this for various packages 
to backport to old servers, tends to work fine. XFree86 is a beast, 
however - may require some handholding.

Then all you need to do is tar it all up to look exactly like the stock 
PWL stuff, add as a custom package and select it. One would think it'd 
be a drop in replacement at that point.

-te

Ashley Rolleston wrote:
> I think maybe I should elaborate slightly as my last post seems quite
> vague... Sorry for the double post.
> 
> I am familiar with peeweelinux and the stock XFree86 that is supplied 'Out
> of the Box'. I have had these working with previous versions of hardware.
> Now I am using new embedded hardware (the vortex-6047 www.vortex86.com)
> which uses a SiS550 chip and need to upgrade XFree86 to get the drivers
> working.
> 
> Specifically I am not sure about the best way to install the Xfree86
> glibc2.1 precompiled binaries that I have with the peeweelinux setup? Should
> I use a method similar to creating a custom_kernel package? If so are there
> any issues disabling the supplied XFree86?
> 
> Thanks, again
> 
> Ashley Rolleston
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Does anyone have experience with upgrading the XFree86 package that comes
>>with peewee? I would like to upgrade it to 4.3.0. I have already upgraded
> 
> my
> 
>>kernel to 2.4.18. What are the main steps towards accomplishing the
> 
> XFree86
> 
>>upgrade?
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated, I have searched through the archives, but I
>>cannot find much of relevance.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ashley Rolleston
>>Software Engineer
>>ashley AT smartsw DOT co DOT uk
>>
>>
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