Re: XFree86 4.3.0 for RedHat 7.3?

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:42:46 -0500 (EST), Dave Strauss <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>  On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:10:27 -0500 (EST), "Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >  
>  >  On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Dave Strauss wrote:
>  >  
>  >  >Has anyone tried to build and install XFree86 4.3.0 on RedHat 7.3?
>  >  >Is this doable or is it a Bad Idea?
>  >  
>  >  Definitely doable, but IMHO is not a good idea.  The time spent 
>  >  resolving all of the problems would be better time spent 
>  >  upgrading to a current OS release.  Trust me, been there and did 
>  >  that, and I have 3+ years maintaining the package.  It's not 
>  >  worth the time and effort.
>  >  
>  >  However, YMMV...
>  >  
>  >  -- 
>  >  Mike A. Harris
>  >  
>  
>  That's what I suspected.  I should probably upgrade to Fedora
>  or Enterprise anyway.
>  
>  Thanks.
>  
>  -- Dave Strauss
>  

I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 and things (DRI in particular) work much
better now (I've got a Radeon Mobility M6 that was giving me problems
with older XFree86 versions).

Thanks.

-- Dave Strauss


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