removing x.org and installing xfree86.3.3

interndan · 11-08-2005, 01:07 PM

How much trouble would it be to remove xorg and install xfree863.3?? The reason I would like to do that is it was the last version of X that had good support for the video card in this old laptop.

IBM 760 XL
Slackware 10.2
80 M Ram
4 G Harddrive
CDROM

I have ran slackware since 9.0 with no problems other than video. It works.....but???

cathectic · 11-09-2005, 06:39 AM

You might be hard pressed to get the 9.0 binaries from 9.0 to run (different glibc and other library changes) - you'd probably have to get the SlackBuild script and source files for XFree86 3.3 from a Slackware 9.0 mirror and try to build it yourself.

interndan · 11-09-2005, 09:51 AM

Thanks for the reply. I probably would have to go farther back than that. I've been trying to work this out since my first install of slackware on this laptop. Slack 7 seems to be the last build that had a version of X with the correct drivers. Do you think it would build with the newer libraries??

Okie · 11-09-2005, 02:54 PM

i recently visited XFree86's website and the instructions for compiling the latest stable release from sourcecode seemed easy enough to follow, you could try compiling XFree86 from source...