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Xorg on Ubuntu

there should be plenty of guides on it or installing xorg on linux in general. it took me some time and a bit of a headache to do it, but i figured it out eventually.
 
Have you checked if the unstable branch of Debian has incorporated Xorg? If so, I'm sure you can just to a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade to perform the install.
 
Have you checked if the unstable branch of Debian has incorporated Xorg?
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No, they havn't and it'll probably be a while because there's a lot of patches that need to make it into X.org before it'll be accepted into Debian.

I wouldn't worry about it, do you really need something from X.org that isn't in the Ubuntu X packages?
 
Debian is waiting for the modular version of the X Server to kick in. Debrix, that way the libraries are independant from the actual X server and they can be upgraded in a gradual peicemeal fasion, or something like that. Once that is done then they'll have a big push to get it upgraded to X.org, then after that they'll be able to keep up to date like everything else.

How Debian's package structure is setup it makes it a huge pain in the rear and it is very tramatic to upgrade X... But once they get X all setup to be built and run like any other system then it should be easy for Debian to keep up to date.

Meanwhile this guy has some directions on how to install X.org on Debian in /usr/local, that way it aviods running into Debian's packaging system. Since Ubuntu is basicly Debian with Gnome 2.8 tacked on, (nothing wrong with that, btw) it should be very similar. The next release of Ubuntu should incorporate X.org
 
Hey guys, The easiest way to get xorg on ubuntu is to just change the apt-get sources list. Change all 'warty's to 'hoary' and do an apt-get dist-upgrade and you'll have xorg along with whatever else theyre working on for hoary. I guess this isn't the best if you want to keep the stable warty, but whateva.
 
I've installed X.org 6.8.1(and 6.8.0 for that matter) on my Debian box, wasn't very difficult.
Extract sources, copy xc/config/cf/xorgsite.def to host.def, then add whatever options you want.
Me, I just added the following:
#define ProjectRoot /PATH - This will put the installation in a directory of your choice
#define NothingOutsideProjectRoot YES - And everything goes in there
#define HasFreetype2 YES - If you have FreeType installed
#define HasFontconfig YES - Same as above but FontConfig

Then just "make World && make install"

Me, I installed it in /opt/X.org-6.8.1 and then symlinked /usr/X11R6 to that directory.

There are probably lots of other nifty options you can put in the host.def file, I'm just lazy so I never looked any others up 🙂
 
I am running X.org on ubuntu right now.

you have to upgrade from Warty to Hoary and then it allows you to choose between XFree86 and Xorg. I'd stick with Warty and XFree for right now. I thought Hoary developement branch would be like Debian Sid, but it uses more experimental packages and is more unstable (crash prone, irritating bugs) then Sid is.

For example they are using Gnome 2.9 which is developement branch.
 
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