Article:		Installing XFree86 on Mac OS X
Subject:		RE: Xmod.tgz and Xvar.tgz not needed?
Date:		2001-07-20 10:01:22
From:		proclus
Xdarwin, as I understand it, Xdarwin does not use conventional XFree86 drivers and modules. Instead, it hooks into Darwin's Core Graphics and IOKit. The nice thing about that is that it works fairly well automatically with any hardware that is supported by Apple. This is now especially true since Torrey became a "Darwin Developer". BTW, he looks great in that khaki Hexley shirt ;-}. Torrey and the XonX crew have done a supurb job with this port, and I can vouch that any files which are not included are also not required. If you have more questions about this, you should contact XonX http://mrcla.com/XonX/ Regards, proclus http://www.gun-darwin.org/

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• RE: Xmod.tgz and Xvar.tgz not needed? - No!
  2001-07-23 03:59:53  tirien [View]
  
  
  Thanks Proclus,
  
  I went ahead with the install, and it just worked fine. Except the last bit, it did not shutdown graciously as mentioned, but the work-around also failed. I had to use the reset button to recover. (Which is a pain as I always need to reset the current date and time after a reset).
  
  Thanks again,
  TiRien
• RE: Xmod.tgz and Xvar.tgz not needed? - No!
  2001-07-26 16:35:16  proclus [View]
  
  
  Yea, did you get the rainbow spinner too? I've sometimes had similar problems with X on the first launch, but they go away after that.
  
  Regards,
  proclus