[Xorg] Successfully compiled Kdrive, but...

Asterius Pandoras asterius at airpost.net
Wed Jun 16 18:10:03 PDT 2004


I think I'll try again. What Firefox and other GUI Wms and apps Kdrive
dependencies needed in order to compile? How do I start ratpoison or
firefox with Kdrive on a command line? I appreciate any hints on topic.

Asterius.
mz at artificial-stupidity.net> said:
> 
> Do you have a ps/2 mouse?  try 'modprobe psmouse'.  usb mouse?
> try adding -mouse /dev/input/mice to your c ommand line.
> 
>  -- jaym
> 
> 
> Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:22:16PM -0800, Asterius Pandoras wrote:
> > Hi everyone. Some readers might know my troubles compiling Kdrive
> > with ebuild that Gentoo provides ( and I am not alone). My mouse wasn't
> > working. Painstakingly searching the web and asking questions on this
> > mailing list didn't glean any hints except finding out that one person
> > successfully compiled Kdrive defining host.def file against sources
> > after failing to compile with Gentoo ebuild ( shame on you Gentoo
> > developers). I have followed his way and vaola, my Xvesa and Xfbdev are
> > working. I've build it defining #ProjectRoot /usr/X11R6 while my working
> > directory was /home/kdrive/xc asuming that all files needed will be
> > installed in this directory. However I didn't find there any. Then, 
> > I have just copied and tested both servers and as I said they work as
> > standalone. My qestion is this. While they can work on their own, isn't
> > it correct that I need shared libraries in /usr/X11R6, includes etc. in
> > there in order to compile other X apps like mozilla for instance?
> > Probably I had to " make install " after " make World"? What files(
> > or directory do I have to copy in my /usr/X11R6 ? Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Asterius.
> > 
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