4.1. Installing modified X server
 | For some video cards you can skip this part. Before installing the modified X server check the Video Compatibility list to determine whether you need one. Currently there are reports for working configurations without using a modified X server for Voodoo Graphics as primary and Voodoo3 or Nvidia TNT2 as secondary. |
You probably only need already-built binaries. If there are packages for your distribution you can install them. If not, you have 3 more possibilities:
Install an already built, but not packaged, modified X server and create the necessary symbolic links. You can get such binaries from the Backstreet Ruby home page, at http://startx.times.lv.
Help us (as well other people using your distribution) in building an rpm for your distribution (we lack systems installed with all available distributions, so we are not able to build packages for every distribution).
To patch and rebuild XFree from source using the instructions at the Backstreet Ruby page go to the Documentation section, at http://startx.times.lv (or some of the mirrors) -> Documentation -> Quick XFree.
Note that currently there are two different modifications of the X server:
XFree86-4.3 prefbusid (Preferred Bus ID), the new recommended patch/ binary.
Just the XFree-4.3/ XFree-4.3.patch, which is the older one (in the rpm section *server-concurrent.*rpm).
The new patch solves major problems for a number of graphic cards. Check the Video Compatibility list for details.