At 11:25 AM 8/11/02 +0800, Peter wrote:
>[...]
>I made that switch with RH7.1 some time ago with no problems.
>7.1 runs on XFree86-4.0.3-5 and and 7.3 om XFree-4.2.0-8.
This move by Red Hat may be optimistic. Even Debian unstable (Sid) still
runs XFree86 4.1.0-17.
>It is there
>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but I can not find anything specific as to what X
>server I am running. Must be my ignorance.
You want the "Driver" entry in the "Device" block. Here is mine as an example:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI OEM Card"
Driver "ati"
EndSection
>If you think that the problem might be in these XF86Config files and I have
>no problem with RH7.1, how about installing the kernel of RH7.3, libraries
>etc and then replacing the 7.3 XF86Config files with the ones of RH7.1.
Risky. Likely to encounter library incompatibilities.
>BTW I posted the problem as well to the redhat-install list and somebody
>sugested
>to turn off the apmd system (advanced power management) by unmarking
>the "apmd" entry in ntsysv.
>What do you think about that? Would that have something to do with tuxracer
>or chromium?
Well outside my real expertise, but it seems farfetched, given that the
system is running and only the keyboard (and perhaps portions of the
display) has failed.
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