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Timestamp:
09/14/2002 09:47:22 PM (22 years ago)
Author:
Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>
Branches:
10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, v1_0, v5_0, v5_0-pre1, v5_1, v5_1-pre1, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal
Children:
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Parents:
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Message:

Added freetype2 to xfree86; removed objprelink from kde; Update kde to 3.0.3

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@230 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

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    99variable in <filename>.bash_profile</filename>.  The statement should
    1010look something like <userinput>PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin</userinput>
    11 and be placed before the <userinput>export PATH</userinput> statement.
     11and be placed before the <userinput>export PATH</userinput>
     12statement.</para>
    1213
    13 Run
     14<para>Run
    1415<screen>source ~/.bash_profile</screen></para>
    1516
    16 <para>Set up your mouse 
    17 <screen>cd /dev
    18 ln -s psaux mouse</screen>
     17<para>Set up your mouse:
     18<screen><userinput>cd /dev
     19ln -s psaux mouse</userinput></screen>
    1920
    2021Adjust the symbolic link as necessary for other types of mice.  For instance,
    21 a serial mouse on the first serial port would be linked to ttyS1.
    22 </para>
     22a serial mouse on the first serial port would be linked to ttyS1.</para>
    2323
    2424<para>Create the XF86Config file with
    25 <screen>cd ~
    26 XFree86 -configure</screen>
     25<screen><userinput>cd ~
     26XFree86 -configure</userinput></screen>
    2727The screen will go black and you may hear some clicking of the monitor.  This
    2828command will create a file, <filename>XF86Config.new</filename> in your home
    29 directory.
    30 </para>
     29directory.</para>
    3130
    32 <para>
    33 Edit <filename>XF86Config.new</filename> to suit your system.  The details
    34 of the file are located in the man page <userinput>man XF86Config</userinput>.
    35 Some things you may want to do are:</para>
     31<para>Edit <filename>XF86Config.new</filename> to suit your system.  The
     32details of the file are located in the man
     33page <userinput>man XF86Config</userinput>.  Some things you may want to
     34do are:</para>
     35
    3636<itemizedlist>
     37
    3738<listitem><para>Section "Files". Change the order of the font paths searched.
    38 You may want to put
    39 100dpi fonts ahead of 75dpi fonts if your system normally comes up closer
    40 to 100 dots per inch.  You may want to remove some font directories completely.
    41 </para></listitem>
    42 <listitem><para>
    43 Section "Module".  Remove or comment out some of the modules.  The "glx"
    44 and "dri" sections are not operational until we install DRI below.  Leaving
    45 modules in does not hurt anything.
    46 </para></listitem>
    47 <listitem><para>
    48 Section "InputDevice".  You may want to change the keyboard autorepeat rate
    49 by adding
    50 <userinput>Option "Autorepeat" "250 30"</userinput>.
    51 </para></listitem>
    52 <listitem><para>
    53 Section "Screen".  Add a DefaultDepth statement such as:
    54 <userinput>DefaultDepth 16</userinput>. In the SubSection for your default
    55 depth, add a modes line such as:
    56 <userinput> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"</userinput>.
    57 The first mode listed will normally be the starting resolution.
    58 </para></listitem>
     39You may want to put 100dpi fonts ahead of 75dpi fonts if your system normally
     40comes up closer to 100 dots per inch.  You may want to remove some font
     41directories completely.</para></listitem>
     42
     43<listitem><para>Section "Module".  Remove or comment out some of the modules. 
     44The "glx" and "dri" sections are not operational until we install DRI
     45below.  Leaving modules in does not hurt anything.</para></listitem>
     46
     47<listitem><para>Section "InputDevice".  You may want to change the keyboard
     48autorepeat rate by
     49adding <userinput>Option "Autorepeat" "250 30"</userinput>.</para></listitem>
     50
     51<listitem><para>Section "Screen".  Add a DefaultDepth statement such
     52as: <userinput>DefaultDepth 16</userinput>. In the SubSection for your
     53default depth, add a modes line such
     54as: <userinput> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"</userinput>.
     55The first mode listed will normally be the starting
     56resolution.</para></listitem>
     57
    5958</itemizedlist>
    6059
    61 <para>
    62 Test the system with
    63 <screen>XFree86 -xf86config ~/XF86Config.new</screen>
     60<para>Test the system with
     61<screen><userinput>XFree86 -xf86config ~/XF86Config.new</userinput></screen>
    6462You will only get a grey background with an X-shaped mouse cursor, but it
    6563confirms the system is working.  Exit with Control-Alt-Backspace.  If the
    66 system does not work, take a look at
    67 <filename>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</filename> to see what went wrong.
    68 </para>
    69 <para>
    70 Move the confiuration file to its final location
    71 <screen>mv ~/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4</screen>
    72 </para>
    73 <para>
    74 Create <filename>.xinitrc</filename>
     64system does not work, take a look
     65at <filename>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</filename> to see what went
     66wrong.</para>
     67
     68<para>Move the confiuration file to its final location
     69<screen><userinput>mv ~/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4</userinput></screen></para>
     70
     71<para>Create <filename>.xinitrc</filename>
    7572<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
    7673# Begin .xinitrc file
    … …  
    8178This provides an initial screen with an xterm and a clock that is managed by a
    8279simple window manager, Tab Winow Manager.  For details of twm, see the
    83 man page.
    84 </para>
     80man page.</para>
    8581
    86 <para>
    87 Start X with
    88 <screen>startx</screen>
    89 to get basic funtional X Windows System.
    90 </para>
     82<para>Start X with
     83<screen><userinput>startx</userinput></screen>
     84to get basic funtional X Windows System.</para>
     85
    9186</sect2>
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