Anyone try xorg-x11 from rawhide?

[dpw2atox]

I just saw today that there is xorg-x11 rpms available for the xorg fork of xfree86 and im curious if anyone has tried it out yet. I am interested in giving it a shot and seeing if the official nvidia drivers will work with it or not.

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i thought about it, but when i started to install it required me to remove a lot of apps, including openoffice and, of course, XFree86. i may try it out anyway in order to submit bug reports. i think the change is a good thing, since XFree86 was becoming very "closed" to open development.

/. has an article with some interesting responses:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/17/226216.shtml

[redhat71]

just did

after manually taking care of xfs and ld.so.conf, everything seems to be ok

except:
$ chinput
Chinput Version 3.0.2 -- XIM Server
Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
Error : XCreateFontSet() !

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redhat71, could you explain the steps you took to fix xorg - postinstall...

i'm kind of in the middle of it and having trouble getting X to start. i have "/usr/X11R6/lib" in /etc/ld.so.conf

what else am i missing?

i'll post more after trying some more things..

[redhat71]

the installation(rpm -Uvh xorg*) was quite smooth except there were a few packages that have dependency problem, i manually solved them by downloading the latest version of those packages

the extra work i read from the maillist are the ld.so.conf and xfs service
since you've taken care of the ld.so.conf, just take a look at xfs
if it's not running, "/etc/init.d/xfs start" and try "startx" again

ps: i rarely know anything about X or lib, there's not much i can help
if you need more info, i suggest you check the maillist, this topic is kind of HOT recently
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/thread.html