Try putting the new config file in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Best of luck.
-- Asheesh.
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, 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)
>
> First of all, it detects my video card incorrectly. It detects it as a
> RIVA128 when it should be RIVATNT (It's a Diamond Viper 550). Then it tells
> me that 4.0.1 does not support your card in 3D (or something like that) and
> it asks me whether I want to install XFree86 3.3.x with 3D help or XFree86
> 3.3.x. It doesn't even give me the choice of 4.0.1. So, I figured maybe it
> was a typo or something and chose the regular XFree86 3.3.x. When the
> install is finished and booted, I type "XFree86 -version" and I get 4.0.1.
> WTF?
>
> Okay, fine, so now I have 4.0.1, but the wrong video driver installed. I
> want to fix that. XFree86 web page says I should type:
> "XFree86 -configure"
> Did that and it autodetected a bunch of stuff (correctly, seemingly). Now
> to test it I type:
> "XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new"
> and I get the cursor that I can move around with the black and white pattern
> background. Groovy, it works (successful test, right? I assume so.
> 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). 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?
> Do I have some fundamentally wrong idea of how this should work? Did my
> test not work? What's the deal?
>
> Any ideas that anyone might have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
> Frustrated,
> Tim
>
> PS It seems weird that the new XFree86 Config format isn't recognized, but
> the old one is.
>
> >> use XFdrake instead of xf86config.
> >>
> >> -sarang
>
> > That doesn't work, I'm in the same boat.
> >
> > If 3.x is installed XFdrake does not recognize the 4.0x installation.
> >
> > -JMS
>
> yeah, XFree86 website says neither does XF86Setup for 4.0.1. I've tried it
> too. It gives errors.
>
>
>
>
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