new xfs with XF86-4.0.1?

[Martin Costabel]

You also need to change the server number from unix/:-1 to unix/:7100.

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Martin

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[Stephen R. Anderson]

I recently built the XF86 4.0.1 package, and (unlike various others on
this list) had little trouble getting the new X server to work on my
B&W G3. However, I've noticed that since doing that, the X font server
(xfs) doesn't get started during normal boots. Building the new X
server involved rebuilding a lot of other X stuff, including xfs, and
I see from the xfs man page that this version of xfs doesn't seem to
be at all consistent with the way xfs is started in
/etc/rc.d/init.s/xfs. The new xfs seems to want a configuration file,
and doesn't seem to support the options (-daemon, -droppriv) that it
gets called with at boot time.

Have I misdagnosed this problem? If not, has someone got a replacement
for the xfs init script?

--Steve Anderson

[Nelson Abramson]

"Stephen R. Anderson" wrote:

> <snip>

> (xfs) doesn't get started during normal boots. Building the new X
> server involved rebuilding a lot of other X stuff, including xfs, and

xfs is part of the X package (X Font Server).

> I see from the xfs man page that this version of xfs doesn't seem to
> be at all consistent with the way xfs is started in
> /etc/rc.d/init.s/xfs. The new xfs seems to want a configuration file,
> and doesn't seem to support the options (-daemon, -droppriv) that it
> gets called with at boot time.
>
> Have I misdagnosed this problem? If not, has someone got a replacement
> for the xfs init script?

Go edit your rc script and modify the execute line with the appropriate
switches :-) If you can more the rc script, and you can read the man
page, you can edit the script so that it's correct (of course make a
backup copy..)

HTH
--Nelson Abramson