RE: release of XFree86 4.2

Thanks Jens,

Anybody who wants to upload something to the project can do so by
anonymously ftp into "upload.sourceforge.net", put the file in
the /incoming directory, send an email with some brief descriptions
to Armin or me, we will then move it to the project web site.

Frank

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Jorgensen, Jens H wrote:

> Hi Frank
>
> I have sucessfully compiled qt-x11-free-3.0.2 for QNX 6.1A and I also
> created a .tar.z file with the necessary changes - but how do I go about
> uploading it to the OpenQNX project?
>
> --
> Jens
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Liu [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 2:04 AM
> To: openqnx-developer-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> Subject: [Openqnx-developer] release of XFree86 4.2
>
>
>
> Thanks everybody who tested the new XFree86 4.2. I decide to
> release the final binary to the openqnx site. As I mentioned
> in earlier posts, you can download the source code from the official
> xfree86 web site if you want to play with it. All my patches have
> been submitted and included in the official release.
>
> This binary includes all the post 4.2 fixes, most importantly,
> the zlib security problem as mentioned:
> http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/security_sources_article-4582.html
>
> Everybody should upgrade to this release.
>
> Here is a HOWTO for starters:
>
> Installation:
> 1) download the "xf-4.2-bin.tar.gz" to your systems from
>    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/openqnx
> 2) su
>    cd /
>    tar zxf /whatever/directory/xf-4.2-bin.tar.gz
>    this should install XFree86 4.2 in your /opt/X11R6 and /etc/X11
>
>    /opt/X11R6 is chosen so that it won't conflict with Xphoton in
> /usr/X11R6.
> 3) modify your $HOME/.profile to add
>    export PATH=/opt/X11R6/bin:$PATH
>    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/X11R6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>    this will make sure the binaries and libraries can be found.
>
> Of course, you can't run XFree86 server inside Photon directly, you will
> have to exit Photon to the text console mode and then "startx".
> I configured my system to boot up into text console, so I can either
> run "startx" or "ph" to get into either X Window or Photon.
> If your system is configured to boot into Photon directly,
> you can, as root, type:
> touch /etc/system/config/nophoton
> and the system will no longer boot into Photon.
> (if you ever want to change back to automatically boot into photon,
>  simply remove /etc/system/config/nophoton)
>
> To configure X Window, you need to run "XFree86 -configure", which will
> create a "XF86Config.new" file that you can copy into
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You may want to modify this file to change
> some default settings (such as set your own default color depth).
>
> Before you can "startx", you need to start the mouse driver. The
> follwoing are two examples, you can do "use /usr/photon/bin/devi-hirun"
> to find out more..
>
> for PS2 mouse:
> /usr/photon/bin/devi-hirun -Pr ps2 mousedev
> for MS serial mouse on COM1:
> /usr/photon/bin/devi-hirun -Pr msoft fd -d/dev/ser1
>
> (if you've used photon, you will need to kill and restart devi-hirun).
>
> Now everything is ready and you should be able to "startx"
> and enjoy. Post any questions to this openqnx mailing list.
>
> If you need to run some photon applications occasionally, you
> can do so via "phinx". Questions can be posted any and [email protected]
> should be able to help you out.
>
>
> Frank
>
>
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