Wow. The confusion just multiplied exponentially. I've heard talk of differing xservers for different video cards, but this is the first time I've had to confront it in practice. I'm still not quite sure what it means and what I must do. I'll have to let that sink in for a bit.
I took a look in the /pasture directory for Slack 8.1 and it comtains a further subdirectory called /XFree86-3.3.6-servers . I'm guessing I need to look within that sub directory? I've already installed XFree86 4.2.0. I'm not sure how, or if, two different XFree86 releases work together. Probably I'll have to ditch 4.2.0 to use my video card, no? In crystalizing confusion, James On 14 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James Miller wrote: > > > > I'm beginning to think I may have overlooked something > > in installing X. I'll look and think that over a bit > > before posting further. > > Which X server are you using? The default X server in > Slackware 8.1 is designed for VESA cards -- but not the > old VESA cards. There is a cut-off point, but I don't > remember what it is. 1.2 ? 2.0 ? > > You say you have an S3 Trio 64V+ video card. I believe > this card is VESA 1.2. That VESA may be too old to work > with the default X server. If so, try the S3 X server > from the /pasture directory of Slackware 8.1. > > Cheers, > Steven > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
