{"id":5,"date":"2006-05-26T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:35:42","slug":"modular_x_on_amd64_and_xgl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/2006\/05\/26\/modular_x_on_amd64_and_xgl\/","title":{"rendered":"Modular X on amd64 and xgl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished migrating from X.org 6.8.2 to Modular X 7.0, and everything built like it should.  nvidia binary drivers even work as well.  Kudos to the x11 team for the hard work. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/proj\/en\/desktop\/x\/x11\/modular-x-howto.xml\">Migrating to Modular X HOWTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>After making sure X and GL were working properly, I started to build <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedesktop.org\/wiki\/Software_2fXgl\">xgl<\/a>. Here&#8217;s how I did it:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n# wget http:\/\/www.freedesktop.org\/~davidr\/xgl-svn_100.tar.bz2<br \/>\n# cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:\/cvs\/cairo login<br \/>\n  (press Enter for password)<br \/>\n# cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:\/cvs\/cairo co glitz glitzinfo<br \/>\n# pushd glitz<br \/>\n# .\/autogen.sh --prefix=\/opt\/fdo\/<br \/>\n# make<br \/>\n# make install<br \/>\n# popd<br \/>\n# pushd glitzinfo<br \/>\n# PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\/opt\/fdo\/lib\/pkgconfig\/ make -f Makefile.glx<br \/>\n# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\/opt\/fdo\/lib\/ .\/glitzinfo<br \/>\n# popd<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nAt this point, glitzinfo should have told you a bunch of information about available features and formats.  You&#8217;ll have poor performance if you don&#8217;t have the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>texture rectangle<br \/>\ntexture border clamp<br \/>\nmultitexture<br \/>\ntexture environment combine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to build the xgl server.<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n# tar -xjvf xgl-svn_100.tar.bz2<br \/>\n# cd Xserver-6.6.1\/<br \/>\n# PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\"\/opt\/fdo\/lib\/pkgconfig\/\" .\/configure --disable-kdriveserver --enable-glx --enable-xglserver --prefix=\/opt\/fdo<br \/>\n# make<br \/>\n# make install<br \/>\n# cd \/usr\/bin<br \/>\n# rm X &amp;&amp; ln -s \/opt\/fdo\/bin\/Xgl X<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>At this point you can now start X. I use<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n$ startxfce4<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The server seems to be somewhat unstable, but that may be because I&#8217;m trying to run 2 displays on one video card. YMMV<\/p>\n<p>To go back to the original X server,<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n# cd \/usr\/bin\/<br \/>\n# rm X &amp;&amp; ln -s Xorg X<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll find out on Tuesday if I can have multiple 3D displays when my new video cards arrive.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Sorry, no more comments because of nasty spammers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished migrating from X.org 6.8.2 to Modular X 7.0, and everything built like it should. nvidia binary drivers even work as well. Kudos to the x11 team for the hard work. (Migrating to Modular X HOWTO) After making sure X and GL were working properly, I started to build xgl. Here&#8217;s how I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/2006\/05\/26\/modular_x_on_amd64_and_xgl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Modular X on amd64 and xgl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}