Re: FC5 xorg and dual head

Hello guys,

Some clarification:
I am using FC5 from the FC5 CDs. All updates happen through yum from the
standard repos plus freshrpms. I have not enabled dag and livna since
they don't support FC5 yet, as it seems.

Yes, I have read the release notes (back when I moved from RedHat 8/9 to
FC1) and yes, I do understand the bleeding edge stuff - I have been
using UNIX in one or other form since 1984 and I know all about that
edge for decades, I'm not new to this.

What I was hoping for was a faster turn around time - that's why we use
Linux after all, isn't it? The issue now isn't that I don't get FF and
TB to work - no, they work just fine - the issue now is that the dual
head thing isn't working.

Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T41, ATI Mobility 7500 (aka ATI Technologies Inc
Radeon Mobility M7 LW).

Best regards,
Chris


Chris Jones wrote:
The failure in FC4 is that they didn't install libstdc++.so.5 which
is required for Thunderbird and Firefox. I found you can yum install
that lib and both will work fine on FC4. They got it right on FC5.


There is no failure on FC's part.

FC is a bleeding edge distro. This has ALWAYS been stated and if you are
unaware of this, you should have read the release notes.

FC5 uses by default a NEWER version of libstdc++. If you install (through
the correct update/installation channels, i.e. yum/pup/pirut) some
application (such as thunderbird/firefox) which requires an older version of
libstdc++, then yum/pup/pirut will(or perhaps should) resolve the
dependencies for you and install the older compat libraries that are need.

If, as I suspect in your case, you disregard the release notes and install
things differently (such as using mozilla's own installation tools or you
wish to install a package for which there is no rpm and you are forced to
build from source), then you have to resolve these dependencies yourself.
This is obvious and you cannot complain. If you fail to do so the fault is
yours not FC's

Chris



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