Hi,

X.org 6.8.2 was released a couple of days ago. There are also binary rpms available in supplementary for Suse 9.2. Unfortunatley, there were no rpms released for 9.1. So, I downloaded the source rpms and built rpms for 9.1 for all x.org packages. I wrote a mini-how-to below about how to do so, which I am hopeful will be of use to someone like me (who does not have much experience creating rpms).

I have installed the 6.8.2 rpms on my suse 9.1 and everything seems to work well so far. There are no major features but I can definitely say that the desktop "feels" a little snappier.

If someone just wants the binary rpms I built then I can provide them, however I do not know how to put it in a apt repository somewhere. I do not have any way to host them either. And these packages are not signed.

Osho

X.org 6.8.2 for Suse 9.1 compilation (On i386) mini-how-to

Download xorg-x11-6.8.2-0.1.src.rpm and xterm-197-2.1.src.rpm from

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/X/Xorg/Xorg-X11R6.8.2/i386/suse92/sources/

If you don't have libnscd and libzip installed already, download libnscd-1.0-2.i586.rpm and libzio-0.1-4.i586.rpm from

http://agusti.dosaiguas.net/rpms

(I have no idea about how trustworthy this source of rpm is. use them at your own risk).

Install libnscd and libzip rpms.

Now, install the xorg-x11-6.8.2-0.1.src.rpm by doing

rpm -ivh xorg-x11-6.8.2-0.1.src.rpm

cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS

edit the xorg-x11.spec file to replace all instances of ghostscript-mini with ghostscript.

I also had to create a symbolic link for the libusb.so in /usr/lib

cd /usr/lib ln -s libusb-0.1.so.4.4.1 libusb.so ldconfig

Then run,

cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS rpmbuild -bb xorg-x11.spec

This will compile the entire X.org - it will take some time. This wil create the following rpms in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586

xorg-x11-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-doc-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-Mesa-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-Mesa-devel-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-Mesa-devel-static-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-fonts-syriac-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xorg-x11-driver-options-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm km_drm-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm

Now you need to create a rpm for xterm (if you care to use xterm).

rpm -ivh xterm-197-2.1.src.rpm cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS rpmbuild -bb xterm.spec

This will create the xterm-197-2.1.i586.rpm in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586

Install all these rpms by

cd /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586 rpm --nodeps -Uvh xorg*.rpm km_drm-6.8.2-0.1.i586.rpm xterm-197-2.1.i586.rpm

Exit X and restart it. Check in /var/log/Xorg.0.log to make sure everything is working OK. If you use nvidia or ati proprietory drivers you may have to reinstall them.