John Cavan wrote:
I got as far as XFree86 -config /root/XFreeConfig.new
and the gray pixelated screen with a mouse pointer came up (yes the
mouse worked) and stayed like that for a good 5 minutes..I finally
did "ctrl alt backspace" I tried starting X and all I got was the
message some thing like "ServerLayout" not a valid section name
did you run into this ? if so how did you get past it? BTW..I'm using
a 3dFX Voodoo# 2000
TIA
Mike Julien
> Hi all,
>
> Just to let you know... I installed the contrib RPMS for the new XFree86
> and, after a bit of struggle and one kernel (2.3.51) recompile, it's
> pretty rocking! Of course, it helps to have a Voodoo3 card, the
> accelerated 3D in a window is pretty nice. :o)
>
> Just a note though... the man pages are screwed badly. All the ones I
> tried failed to open:
>
> fgets: No such file or directory
> Error reading man page /usr/X11R6/man/man1/XFree86.1x.bz2
> No manual entry for XFree86
>
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