Some tips and a question
I'm successfully using the latest 4.0.1-0phase2v7 debs from
deb http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody i386/
and I've discovered a few things that I haven't seen mentioned here.
If you blow away (mv, actually) old XF86Config files and run xf86cfg (not
xf86config!), you can make a perfectly usable XF86Config effortlessly. Just make
sure you click on Configure Layout, because that's really a drop-down menu button,
not just a title! Choose Configure Screen and choose your default color depth and
resolutions.
Your bitmap fonts will work with no Files section at all, but if you want Type 1,
speedo, and truetypes, you will need to load the necessary modules, as has been
mentioned repeatedly here. Netscape won't recognize truetypes, however, unless you
configure xfs and use it by adding to XF86Config:
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
If you have time to read only one doc, read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/RELNOTES.
In my case (Matrox G400) it pointed me to one vital link (dri.sourceforge.net).
The question: after I got DRI working perfectly, as shown in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
(another free tip!), my virtual consoles were all very screwed up (unusable!) and
I experienced a hard crash (I couldn't even telnet in -- I had to hit the reset
switch). Removing DefaultFbBpp 32 from XF86Config kills DRI and restores
stability. Has anybody gotten DRI to work with G400 and kernel 2.4.0-test8?
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