But again, I learned a great deal, and from this I was able to sort out the unhappy fact that there were two versions of Mesa, the Open GL clone, on my machine, and they seemed to be in dispute with one another. Which causes me to voice a complaint that arose in an email exchange with Lou Grinzo, the writer who graces many pages, sometimes those of LinuxPlanet. While I do not have a definitive answer, I certainly have part of it. There are many things that can interrupt this flow, which in any case is ridiculous. And let developers point their code to the real thing, not some link in a chain that may or may not lead to the right place.
Storage is cheap.
Wipe out your XFree86 to build a new one and you'll have a lot of other stuff to install, too. This is just pure sloppiness. So time had come to return to first principles. At least I could run a release XFree86. David Watson had pointed out that XFree86-4.01, if you compile it yourself, will, too, make an mga.o module.