I should mention that when I followed Chris' directions
several times, you cannot boot anymore. I finally traced it
to running graphical login (xdm) although I was able to get
the upgrade to work if I used a shell login, and copied
my old /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc from 3.3.6 back onto the new
one. This allowed me to keep KDE instead of twm as the
default. But DONT reconfigure after upgrade for a graphical
logon, or you can't boot anymore.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: > You need to go download
the binaries for your system from ftp.xfree86.org. > Here
is a list of the minimum files you need: > > Xinstall.sh
> extract
> Xbin.tgz
> Xlib.tgz
> Xman.tgz
> Xdoc.tgz
> Xfnts.tgz
> Xfenc.tgz
> Xetc.tgz
> Xvar.tgz
> Xxserv.tgz
> Xmod.tgz
>
> Just put them in the same directory and type "sh Xinstall.sh". It will ask
> you a couple of questions. I said no to the first question and left the
> answers as default to the rest. Fairly easy to do. Good luck and I hope this
> helps!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Francois Massonneau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:10 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with XFree3.3.6 I guess (that's the one that
> > comes with Mdke7.1)
> > I would like to upgrade XFree4.02, so I downloaded a file named
> > "XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm"
> > To rebuild it, I've got to upgrade 4 files (freetype... and VGlide
> > ....). While I'm writting this message, I'm rebuilding this XFree
> > source rpm file.
> > Now the questions :
> > - Do I need something else ?
> > - How do I do to install this new XFree. ?
> > - Do I have to uninstall XFree3.3.6 then install 4.02 ?
> > All your help will be very appreciated, because I 'm really afraid
> > about that upgrade.
> > Thank you. Francois
> >
> >
