I'm sorry that makes absolutely no sense to me. I have never launched xorg manually. I guess I should add desktop environment and display manager to that list. <div>On 6/7/07, manu <<a href="mailto:eallaud@yahoo.fr">eallaud@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 06/07/2007 07:23:15 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote: > First, I'm very unclear about the roles and "position in the stack" of > kernel modules, drivers, xorg, and xrandr. So, I need to find a good > resource for that info. > > I'm trying to stay up to date with the latest dev video drivers, xorg, > and xrandr. I just don't know how to backup (and recover from backup > if needed). I know people have to be doing this. Can you suggest to > me how? > > -- > .!# RichardBronosky #!. > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg"> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> > Well I vahe installed the whole new server and drivers alongside the one provided by my distro by compiling with a prefix: I used /usr/local. You just have to put /usr/local/bin in your path and put somewhere (like ld.so.conf) the /usr/local/lib in the library path. It works no problem by doing startx -- /usr/locab/bin/Xorg for example. Good luck, Manu ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. <a href="http://fr.mail.yahoo.com">http://fr.mail.yahoo.com</a> </blockquote></div> -- .!# RichardBronosky #!.