source: x/installing/xorg-server.xml@ 3c39513

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY xorg-server-download-http "&xorg-download-http;/xserver/xorg-server-&xorg-server-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY xorg-server-download-ftp  "&xorg-download-ftp;/xserver/xorg-server-&xorg-server-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY xorg-server-md5sum        "3c1c1057d3ad27380d8dd87ffcc182cd">
  <!ENTITY xorg-server-size          "5.6 MB">
  <!ENTITY xorg-server-buildsize     "516 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY xorg-server-time          "1.6 SBU (with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="xorg-server" xreflabel="Xorg-Server-&xorg-server-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="xorg-server.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Xorg-Server-&xorg-server-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="xorg-server">
    <primary sortas="a-xorg-server">xorg-server</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Xorg Server</title>

    <para>
      The <application>Xorg</application> Server is the core
      of the X Window system.
    </para>

    &lfs78_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&xorg-server-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&xorg-server-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &xorg-server-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &xorg-server-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &xorg-server-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &xorg-server-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Optional patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/xorg-server-&xorg-server-version;-add_prime_support-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Xorg Server Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="openssl"/> or
      <xref linkend="nettle"/> or
      <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>,
      <xref linkend="pixman"/>,
      <xref linkend="xorg7-font"/>, and
      <xref linkend="xkeyboard-config"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libepoxy"/> (required for glamor, see command
      explanations below) and
      <xref linkend="xcb-util-keysyms"/> (used by Xnest)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="acpid"/> (runtime),
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/> (to build API documentation),
      <xref linkend="fop"/>, (to build documentation),
      <xref linkend="gs"/> (to build documentation),
      <xref linkend="xcb-util-image"/>,
      <xref linkend="xcb-util-renderutil"/>,
      <xref linkend="xcb-util-wm"/> (all three to build Xephyr) and
      <xref linkend="xmlto"/> (to build documentation)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/Xorg7Server'/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Xorg Server</title>

    <para>
      If you have downloaded the optional patch, apply it by running the
      following command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../xorg-server-&xorg-server-version;-add_prime_support-1.patch</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install the server by running the following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure $XORG_CONFIG            \
           --enable-glamor          \
           --enable-install-setuid  \
           --enable-suid-wrapper    \
           --disable-systemd-logind \
           --with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
      user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
mkdir -pv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d &amp;&amp;
cat &gt;&gt; /etc/sysconfig/createfiles &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>/tmp/.ICE-unix dir 1777 root root
/tmp/.X11-unix dir 1777 root root</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-glamor</parameter>: Build the Glamor DIX (Device
      Independent X) module which is currently required for Southern Islands and
      Sea Islands radeon video chipsets, optional for some other radeons, and
      also optional for the intel driver. It is also used by the modesetting
      driver (which is part of this package) for on hardware using KMS and which
      offers acceleration.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-install-setuid</parameter>: The Xorg binary must run
      as the root user. This switch ensures that the binary is installed
      setuid when <command>make</command> is run by an unprivileged user.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-suid-wrapper</parameter>: Build suid-root wrapper for
      legacy driver support on rootless xserver systems.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--disable-systemd-logind</parameter>: Do not build
      systemd-logind support, otherwise, an error (EE), logged in
      <filename>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</filename>, occurs when starting the X
      server.  Systemd is not supported by BLFS.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/sysconfig/createfiles...</command>: This
      command creates the <filename class="directory">/tmp/.ICE-unix</filename>
      and <filename class="directory">/tmp/.X11-unix</filename> directories at
      startup, and ensures that the permissions and ownership are correct as
      required by the server.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-dmx</option>: Build DMX (Distributed Multihead X)
      server.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-kdrive</option>: this option allows the
      <command>configure</command> script to enable Xephyr if its dependencies
      are met.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          cvt, dmxaddinput, dmxaddscreen, dmxinfo, dmxreconfig, dmxresize,
          dmxrminput, dmxrmscreen, dmxtodmx, dmxwininfo, gtf, vdltodmx, X,
          Xdmx, xdmxconfig, Xephyr, Xnest, Xorg, and Xvfb
        </seg>
        <seg>
          several under $XORG_PREFIX/lib/xorg/modules/{,drivers,extensions}
          including modesetting_drv.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          $XORG_PREFIX/{include/xorg,lib/xorg,share/X11/xorg.conf.d} and
          /var/lib/xkb
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="cvt-x7">
        <term><command>cvt</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            calculates VESA CVT mode lines.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server cvt-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-cvt">cvt</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dmx-x7">
        <term><command>dmx*</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            are various tools used for manipulating the dmx server.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server dmx-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-dmx">dmx*</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gtf-x7">
        <term><command>gtf</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            calculates VESA GTF mode lines.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server gtf-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-gtf">gtf</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="vdltodmx-x7">
        <term><command>vdltodmx</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a tool used to convert VDL config files to DMX config
            files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server vdltodmx-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-vdltodmx">vdltodmx</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="X-x7">
        <term><command>X</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a symbolic link to Xorg.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server X-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-X">X</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry id="Xdmx">
        <term><command>Xdmx</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a proxy X server that uses one or more other X servers as
            its display devices.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server Xdmx">
            <primary sortas="b-Xdmx">Xdmx</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="Xephyr-x7">
        <term><command>Xephyr</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a nested X server which supports modern X extensions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server Xephyr-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-Xephyr">Xephyr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="Xnest-x7">
        <term><command>Xnest</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a nested X server.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server Xnest-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-Xnest">Xnest</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="Xorg-x7">
        <term><command>Xorg</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the X11R7 X Server.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server Xorg-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-Xorg">Xorg</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="Xvfb-x7">
        <term><command>Xvfb</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the virtual framebuffer X server for X Version 11.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server Xvfb-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-Xvfb">Xvfb</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="xdmxconfig-x7">
        <term><command>xdmxconfig</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a graphical configuration utility for the dmx server.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server xdmxconfig-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-xdmxconfig">xdmxconfig</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="modesetting_drv-x7">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">modesetting_drv.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides a video driver for machines using Kernel Mode Setting (KMS).
            This will use glamor if that has been enabled and the hardware offers
            acceleration.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg-server modesetting_drv-x7">
            <primary sortas="c-modesetting_drv">modesetting_drv.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>