Those directions were just what worked for me. I have an NVIDIA Geforce
2 MX and it worked just fine. I had no problems booting either way.
mark wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
> > >
