XOrg vs XFree86

[Chris A Czerwinski]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:13, Redhat71 wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 06:11:10PM +0100, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> >> Does someone already tried xorg packages from fedora-2?
> >> XFree86 packages are now dropped. But are the xorg libs *working*, or is
> >> it too unstable at the moment?
> >
> > No apparent (run time) problems here - make sure to put /usr/X11R6/lib
> > in /etc/ld.so.conf, execute "ldconfig -v", and ensure that "xfs" is
> > running before installing - otherwise you may be faced with X
> > perpetually restarting, and booting to runlevel 1 or 3 to fix
> > things...
> >
> > One of my machines was already set up 'properly' for xorg-x11. The
> > other wasn't... :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > mark
> >
> 
> i do have one problem, i can't use the chinese input software any more
> 
> $ chinput
> Chinput Version 3.0.2 -- XIM Server
> Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
> Error : XCreateFontSet() !
> 
> but if i change the locale from the default zh_CN.GB18030 to zh_CN.GB2312,
> everything is fine
> 
> and i just updated to the latest version 0.0.2004_03_11.9, still the same ...

Have I missed something? 
How come XFree86 has been dropped?
or better still can XFree86 run on FC?

Chris Cz 
(RHL9'er waiting until FC2 comes out before making the transition)