%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Xorg Drivers Xorg Drivers Introduction to Xorg Drivers The Xorg drivers provide the means for the xserver to take advantage of installed hardware. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: Download size: &x7drivers-size; Estimated disk space required: &x7drivers-buildsize; Estimated build time: &x7drivers-time; Xorg Drivers Dependencies Required Optional User Notes: Downloading Xorg Drivers To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands: wget &files-anduin;/xorg/driver-&xorg7-version;.wget && mkdir driver && cd driver && wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/ \ -i ../driver-&xorg7-version;.wget Installation of Xorg Drivers The xf86-input-evdev, xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-fbdev, xf86-video-glint, and xf86-video-newport packages install man pages in UTF-8 encoding, and they will not display correctly using Man-DB. Issue the following command before building these packages to replace the offending characters with ones that man can properly display. sed -i -e "s/\xc3\xb8/\\\\[\/o]/" \ -e "s/\xc3\xa4/\\\\[:a]/" \ -e "s/\xc3\x9c/\\\\[:U]/" man/*.man It is very important not to build display drivers that cannot be used with your hardware. For instance, do not build Sun drivers for an x86 PC as the Sun drivers will expect to see SPARC symbols exported from the kernel. Failure to follow this warning will result in a display lockup, which requires a hard reboot, when configuring Xorg for the first time. Install the drivers by running the following commands for each package: ./configure $XORG_CONFIG \ --with-xorg-module-dir=$XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/modules && make These packages do not provide test suites. Now as the root user: make install Command Explanations --with-xorg-module-dir=...: This switch ensures that the drivers are installed into the correct directory. Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories None libI810XvMC.so, libviaXvMC.so, and libviaXvMCPro.so $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/modules/{drivers,input} Short Descriptions libI810XvMC.so is the X-Video Motion Compensation client library for the Intel i810 video driver. libI810XvMC.so libviaXvMC.so is the X-Video Motion Compensation client library for the VIA Unichrome video driver. libviaXvMC.so libviaXvMCPro.so is the X-Video Motion Compensation client library for the VIA Unichrome Pro video driver. libviaXvMCPro.so