On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Yvon Thoraval wrote:

> >What I recommand to you : run Xfdrake, choose XFree, your graphic card 
> >model, and reasonnable screen size. If the test fails, quit XFdrake and 
> >modify by hand the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file to choose the "fbdev" 
> >driver instead of the one corresponding to your card. fbdev is the 
> >frame buffer driver and it works well for me (I'm running an ATIMach64 
> >which should be supported but...). It should look like something like 
> >this :
> 
> 
> i ran XFdrake, however, i didn't have the choice of XFree but looking at
> XF86Config-4 file i saw a line about Xpmac commented out (#). Nor to
> choose a screen, only resolution and color depth. (modelines are still
> for flat display)
> 

You need to run XFDrake from X or on another X display to get the choice
of XFree4.  Again /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 has nothing to do with Xpmac.

> Then (and because uninstall Xpmac wasn't working), i'm still under Xpmac.
> How could
> i change that manually. Changing only the X --> Xpmac symlink in /etc/X11 ???
> 

rpm -e XFree86-Xpmac
urpmi XFree-server

Stew Benedict

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