Re: XF4 and release(8) man page confusion

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@wanadoo.fr>]

Scott Vanderbilt wrote (in a message from Monday 17)
 > 
 > My mistake in typing. I meant to say "imake", not "image". In any event, 
 > there is no man page for imake(1), contrary to the link in release(8) man page.

Yes there is. It's installed with X as /usr/X11R6/man/cat1/imake.0. 
If your man doesn't find it, there's something wrong on you
installation.  

 > >I think you can choose among two methods;
 > >
 > >   1: cvs checkout and update the XF4 source tree and "make build".
 > >      ("make release" is not necessary.)
 > 
 > This is useful information, and contrary to what many other posts said. I 
 > was able to successfully 'make build'. (I still wish I knew why everyone 
 > recommends to 'make release' if it is not necessary.) In any event, this 
 > "appears" to work because I can successfully run xf86cfg in GUI
   mode. 

Make release prepares a set of binary tar files that you can use
either to install more than one system or to reinstall quickly if
something goes wrong. 

 > However, when I run 'startx', X fails to start. The following are the 
 > trailing lines from the XFree86.0.log:
 > 
 >    (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
 >    (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
 >    (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
 >           compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0
 >    (II)   Module class: XFree86 XInput driver
 >    (II)   ABI class: XFree 86 XInput driver, version 0.2
 >    (EE) No drivers available.
 > 
 >    Fatal server error:
 >    no screens found
 > 

You should post the full server log. 
The drivers that the X server is looking for are XFree86 video card
drivers. It seems that no driver was configured for the hardware found
in your machine. The log files includes both the hardware detected by
the X server and the drivers you've configured. 

Unfortunaltly, you removed *all* this information from the log you
posted. 

Let me repeat one more time : 

** ALWAYS INCLUDE THE *FULL* X SERVER OUTPUT OR /var/log/XFree86.0.log 
** WHEN ASKING FOR HELP ABOUT XFree86  CONFIGURATION !!


					Matthieu