Thanks to those who have offerred help on X4.0.2.
I am unable to locate "unsupported" rpms, partly because www.mandrakeuser.org
seems to be down for the past few days.
Clearly the 4.0.2 rpms ARE installed on my system, though, and I was able to
locate an old printout of instructions for rearranging the symlinks to point
to 4.0.2 and also to remove the GL libraries that the nvidia drivesr cannot
handle.
My question now: Has anyone tried compiling the X4.0.2 sources available at
XFree.org directly under LM 7.2? I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just do
that than to use the rpms...although the cooker RPMS that I have installed
are (hopefully) able to work if I just move around the symlinks...I suppose
the worst that could happen is that I cannot use X and have to go back to
3.3.6 for a while.
Neal
On Monday 26 February 2001 03:00, Jesper Holmberg wrote:
> Hi Neal,
>
> I recently did this. I'm not sure what is the reason you're having
> problems, but perhaps you could try these tips:
>
> 1. Make sure you backup your config-files, esp /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
> 2. Get the RPMs not from cooker, but from unsupported. These are
> rebuilt to work with 7.2
>
> 3. rpm -e every X 3.3.6 RPM you've got.
>
> 4. rpm -Uvh the 4.0.2 RPMs
>
> 5. change the symlink /etc/X11/X to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
>
> Hope any of this might help you
>
> Jesper
>
> * On Monday, February 26, Neal Lippman wrote:
> > Having trouble getting X 4.0.2 to work. Current system is MDK 7.2,
> > upgraded to 2.4.1 kernel (self-compiled, not the cooker rpms).
> >
> > I d/l'd the cooker RPMS for XFree 4.0.2 and installed using rpm -Uvh
> > *.rpm. I did not include the glide rpm, because I have an nVidia GeForce
> > II card. I haven't (yet) gotten the nVidia tars for this card, but
> > figured I could at least get Xfree 4 up first, then upgrade to the nvidia
> > drivers for better performance.
> >
> > However, I am still running version 3.3.6. I remember reading somewhere
> > that there were a bunch of symlinks that needed to be redirected to
> > switch over to XFree 4, but I cannot find the reference now. In any case,
> > I assumed the cooker rpm installs would do this, but apparently not.
> >
> > Any help?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Neal
