Installing X.org on Ubuntu

Time for checking out a new distribution – there has been a lot of noise about Ubuntu, so I gave it a try. So far I like it a lot – it is Gnome-based (vs. my KDE-based Suse 9.2 system), and Gnome definitely got much better! Many of my favorite tools (Gimp, Eclipse, Firefox) are Gnome-based, so I like the idea of running them in their native environment.

As I use the system on my IBM Thinkpad R52, I ran into the same problem I ran with Suse: The 1400×1050 screen could not be driven out of the box, and in order to fix this (as I already found out for Suse), I had to recompile X. Here are my notes on doing that.

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Issues I encountered were:

  • A number of development packages needed to be installed – I didn’t keep track on which ones, but the error messages are pretty trivial.
  • I needed to install two patches that I found on the Gentoo website. Apply “MMX GCC4 compile fix” and “fbmmx-gcc4-compile-fix”, in this order.
  • The install failed, because /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc was a file and not a directory. I just removed it.
  • Configuration: Now /etc/X11/xorg.conf must be tuned. If you screw it up, it can be regenerated with dexconf. If nothing works, start with replacing the driver i810 with vesa, to get a slow but working GUI.

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  1. kishore kumar Avatar
    kishore kumar

    I am new in linux based os,as i work on multi lead linux project, i dont know about how the xorg is installed