Hi Ben,
If I were you this is what I would do:
-Tell rpm to remove all X rpm packages from the package system. This may complain
about some dependencies. You can either ignore them(force), or remove the
corresponding packages, or skip this step.
-Rename the current /usr/X11, /etc/X11, /usr/lib/X11.
-install some X4 rpms. If none are available then run the X4 install script again.
**You can also try starting here first:
-run XFree86 -configure as root. Then try running:
XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new
If this works, there's your new config file. Move it to /etc/X11
X4 doesn't require the font server running, so if you seem to have trouble with it,
try killing it.
You can also try running just 'X'. See if the X server loads. ctrl+alt+backspace
will kill it. If this works, but startx or xinit doesn't, then you should look
through the startx script or looking at /etc/xinit.
I'm running X4.0.2 and have had good success with it. That -configure option is very
slick! Especially with a laptop, and an lcd monitor. X4 doesn't require any
modelines from me like X3 did.
Cory
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:01:44PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> I have tried to upgrade, from the tarballs offered from xfree86.org
> directly... (on top of my mandrake 7.2 install)... was using 3.3.6,
> and now NOTHING WORKS!! (no X, that is) man, I'm bummed!!!
> So hard to get schoolwork done, too : (
>
> I couldn't get their source packages to compile (my usual for new
> programs), so I downloaded the series of binary tarballs and ran their
> installer script. Everything seemed to go alright, but X will not start,
> and I get errors on both the keyboard mapping and the font server...
> Not familiar with these problems, trying to fix up my XF86Config file
> but to no avail... a little confused about what I've got installed now,
> since I reinstalled the 3.3.6 rpm's!! I re-ran the 4.02 installed though,
> since it seems to install everything but complains/halts at runtime.
> Here are my error messages (copied by hand, grrr):
>
> Error: Cannot open "compiled/server-9.xkm" to write keyboard description
> Exiting
> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
> then
>
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
>
> I don't seem to have ANY .xkm's on my box
> ('find /|grep .xkm' as root gives nothing useful back)
> and also don't see 'unix/:-1' in my XF86Config...
>
> Are there other files I need to check/tweak???
> I want to use 4.02 since they finally got a lot more hardware acceleration
> built in, for some older cards like mine...
> But even after I reinstalled Mandrake's rpms for 3.3.6,
> I haven't been able to get into an Xwindows session at all...
>
> please please please, thanks
>
> ben
>
>
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