Under RH6.1 the X symlink is in /etc/X11
jeff
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Brian Chabot wrote:
>
> > My laptop has a generic S3 Virge/MX that doesn't work with generic S3
> > Virge/MX drivers... Mandrake 7.1 (not 7.0), and sax under SuSE both
> > correctly identified it but still loaded generic svga drivers, so it
> > works fine... Of course, Mandrake seemed to think it was capable of
> > 1024x768, but that was easily fixed...
>
> The S3 Virge (and many of the other S3 chipsets) are supported by TWO X
> servers... the S3-specific accelerated server, and the SVGA server.
> Either of these work, but last I'd looked into it, it seemed like the SVGA
> server was working better, and was better supported. Changing which X
> server you are running is fairly trivial... just install the package for
> the X server you want to use and link it to wherever your distro puts the
> X symlink (usually /usr/X11R6/bin/X IIRC).
>
> Your font path problem is also easily rectified by simply making sure you
> use the X Font server supplied with your distro, and changing the font
> path in your XF86Config file to:
>
> FontPath "unix/:-1"
>
> So long as your distro provides a proper xfs config, this will work on all
> distros (AFAIK).
>
>
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