The binary distribution is composed of a number of tar archives which are the executables, servers, fonts, libraries, include files, man pages, config files, and the server link kit. The full distribution takes over 95MB of disk space.
At minimum you need to unpack the 'required' X332*.tgz
archives
plus at least one server that matches your vga card. If you will be
using the new XF86Setup
utility you will also need the VGA16
server. You'll need about 40Mb for the minimum required run-time
binaries only.
Pre-installation script
Post-installation script
XFree86 extraction utility
Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
Documentation
sample config files for xinit, xdm
75dpi and misc fonts
Data files required at run-time
XF86Setup utility
16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
The following are required for an upgrade from XFree86 3.3.1:
Pre-installation script
Post-installation script
XFree86 extraction utility
Changes since 3.3.1 (except the servers)
Documentation
XF86Setup utility
16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
Choose at least one of the following server to match your hardware:
8514/A server
AGX server
I128 server
Mach 64 server
Mach 32 server
Mach 8 server
Monochrome server
P9000 server
S3 server
old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
SVGA server
16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
ET4000W32, ET6000 server
100dpi fonts
Cyrillic fonts
Other fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew)
Scalable fonts (Speedo and Type1)
Font server and config files
X header files, config files and compile-time libs
Manual pages
Nested X server
X Print server
Virtual frame buffer X server
The X server LinkKit
PostScript version of the documentation
HTML version of the documentation
Documentation in Japanese
HTML version of the documentation in Japanese
If this is your first time, then you can safely install all of the
packages. As a minimal install, you'll need doc, bin, fonts lib,
config, and one X server. If you already have a version of XFree86
installed, MAKE A BACKUP OF /usr/X11R6
BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. The standard installation
procedure will overwrite your existing version of XFree86.
Also, be sure to read the Release Notes Release Notes before installing.
If you plan to install XF86Setup you'll have to install
X332prog
as well since XF86Setup checks for the existence of
a certain file name pattern which is satisfied only if you install
the library files from X332prog
. This restriction will be
fixed in future XFree86 releases for LynxOS.
It may be necessary to increase the process stack limit in order to
run XFree86 on your system. Edit /etc/startab
and reboot your
system to make the changes active before you begin the installation.
Also, be sure to include /usr/X11R6/bin
in your PATH
environment variable.