Hi Chip,
I believe that the XFree86 sites/mirrors contain sets of binaries for both
glibc/libc6 and for libc5. Someone correct me if I am wrong. If you are
willing to install things manually instead of using Debian's nifty
packages, then you can download the XF86-3.3.2 binaries and just untar
them into /usr/X11R6. From what I recall, the XF86 binaries are archived
relative to this directory. You might want to check this before you
extract the archives there. Relevant files to get may include:
X332SVGA.tgz
X332VG16.tgz
X332set.tgz
X332config.tgz
X332lib.tgz
X332bin.tgz
X332prog.tgz
(and maybe some fonts if don't already have them)
Actually I just confirmed that these are linked against libc5. Here is
the output from ldd:
myhost:~/bin> ldd ./XF86_SVGA
libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000)
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40014000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40017000)
You can grab these binaries from the "3.3.2/binaries/Linux-ix86"
directory, not the glibc one. If you also download the {pre,post}inst.sh
shell scripts and run them, then make sure you don't link the server to
"X." Remember that Debian's "X" is an suid wrapper for the X server.
Remember to check that your /etc/X11/Xserver file reflects the location of
the server you will be using, in this case /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA.
Also, remember to use the 24bpp fix if you have problems at 24bpp. One
last thing, XF86Setup probably defaults to installing XF86Config somewhere
in /usr/X11R6/lib. When it asks you to save the XF86Config file, you
might want to save it in /etc/X11/XF86Config which is the Debian default.
Again, someone please correct me if I made a mistake somewhere in this
message since I haven't done this in a while. Thanks.
I know this isn't the nicest solution but if there isn't a bo package for
XF86-3.3.2 then you might want to just download the binaries as I outlined
above.
Good luck
-Ossama
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