On Thursday 02 January 2003 12:50 pm, b d wrote: > <snipped> Is it as simple (or more likely as > hard) as downloading source from the XFree86 site and > compiling X? Any help or ideas appreciated.... > > It actually is quite simple, but takes a lot of disk space for the sources. Install the source, then 'make world'. The docs mention a few arch specific files to look at, but I have never had to edit anything for alpha linux.