On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Yesterday, Brian Chabot gleaned this insight:
>
> > Slackware (latest from an ISO): installed. Booted. The package
> > selection (disk sets) was a total waste of time... it hasn't changed
> > much at all since 3.1 on my first laptop. And like my first laptop, I
> > couldn't even get X to run. I'm sure a minimal install would make a
> > sweet server, but this is a desktop and I like a gui so I can see lots
> > of xterm windows at once... Pass...
>
> If you have X working on another distribution, just copy the XF86Config
> file to Slackware and you're golden. No big deal. Same thing for RedHat,
> though RedHat's installer does a pretty good job of setting up your video
> these days.... Unless your versions of XFree86 are significantly different
> between the two distributions, it should just work.
Careful, at least one dist he mentioned (Mandrake) is based on XFree86
4.0. The Config file are NOT compatible. For example I've foind that if
you feed 4.0 a 3.3.6 config file it will sig11 !
> If you're running on a new video card, you may need to make sure you have
> the latest version of XFree86 to support your card. You should be able to
> use XF86Setup after the install to get a working configuration on
> virtually any card supported by XFree86, provided you know what you have.
>
> I heard somewhere that RedHat has RPMs for XF86 4.0 too...
They might, of course 4.0 is rather buggy, but 4.0.1 has just been
released with most of the fixes.
--rdp
> BTW, What video card DO you have?
>
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Rich Payne
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