Thanks for your help, Juan! It seems hard to find straightforward information like that (unless I missed something in the Mandrake docs), but I guess that's what this list is for. Linux documentation seems so spread out. But I'm learning and hopefully I'll be someone helping others on a mail list. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Faehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating > > On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 02:10:11 Tim Faehnle wrote: > > > > Okay, Does Mandrake 7.2 come with 4.0.1 or not? I'm confused by Mandrake > > install. (it's buggy and ill-designed, but that's a different discussion) > > > > It comes both with 3.3.6 and 4.0.1, that is the part that can be confusing you. > > > install is finished and booted, I type "XFree86 -version" and I get 4.0.1. > > WTF? > > XFree86 always give 4.0+ because it is the name for the unified X server > under 4.0. In other words, there is no XFree86 program in 3.3.6, you have > a bunch of independent X servers: XF86_SVGA, XF86_S3, XF86_I128... > > > Nothing tells me if that's what I'm supposed to see.). Okay, then I just > > overwrite the old /etc/X11/XF86Config with this new one (making a backup of > > course and removing the .new extension). > > Bad attempt. As in MDK 7.2, 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 can live together, the file named > XF86Config is for 3.3.6, and XF86Config-4 for 4.0.1. So you should put your > new file in place of -4. > > > Then I type "startx" and it says > > that it can't even recognize the keyword "ServerLayout", which happens to be > > the first keyword in the new XF86Config, and it fails. What did I do wrong? > > StartX just tries to launch /etc/X11/X as server, that is supposed to point > to the right one (is a symlink). In your case it seems to point to some > server in the 3.3.6 series, that fails to read the new config tags. > Change it to point to the 4 series (ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X). > > And check manually the settings (driver selection and so on) in the -4 config > file. I don't know how good is the configurator to guess your hardware. > > -- > Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #> more beer > > Linux 2.2.18-pre24-vm #2 SMP Wed Nov 29 02:56:21 CET 2000 i686 unknown >
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