Debug build of X doesn't seem to load XF86Config
David Huang
hzhr@linuxforum.net
Thu Feb 27 13:46:00 GMT 2003
Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi.
>
> As described in the first posting of "Cannot recompile X", I also
> compiled a debug build of X. For this, I ran "./config/util/makeg.sh
> World".
>
> When I now run "startx" to start the debug build of X, it seems to
> ignore my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I think so, because if it would load
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, it would read the FontPath entries I specified
> there. Now, both with and without XF86Config, I get the same number of
> fonts (xlsfonts | wc -l). In the build provided by cygwin, there's a
> difference if XF86Config-4 is present.
>
> I also tried renaming the file to /etc/X11/XF86Config.
>
> Did I miss something when compiling X?
What's the version number of the xc source are you use?
Perhaps you need update the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin sources from
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/
or try xc CVS snapshots?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexander Skwar
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