Hi, I have a Toshiba laptop w/RH7.2, which I recently upgraded from RH7.0. In the original install of X, I had to switch to using the XF86_SVGA server, following instructions from a laptop site I read, which I did by getting the XF86_SVGA (probably by installing the rpm package, although my memory is a little fuzzy) file installed in /usr/X11R6/bin and doing a soft link from /etc/X11/X to that file. This was because the laptop has the S3/Virge MX+ card (I think), and the SVGA server is the one that works - and only in 16bpp mode. I notice w/Xfree86 4.10-3 installed, that there are possibly new drivers for the S3/Virge MX. I thought maybe I could try using those, but I wasn't sure how to easily reverse what I've done. It seems the new drivers are loadable modules now? I wasn't sure how to implement the use of these properly.
I see that there is a rpm package for the SVGA server (XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-42) and XFree86-compat-modules-3.3.6-42 listed when I do rpm -q -a | grep XFree86, along with several packages for version 4.1.0-3. I imagined a couple of choices: 1) Completely uninstall all the packages associated w/XFree86, and then only install from scratch the 4.10-3 packages ( or the latest versions?). Then run Xconfigurator, or Xfree86 -configure (any advice about which would be better?) Do I have to explicitly download and install the driver rpm package for s3virge, or is it somehow included in the packages for XFree86 version 4.10? I ask this because I see an s3virge_drv.o in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, but I didn't know if this was something from the 3.3.6 version or the driver I'm looking for. 2) Change the symbolic link in /etc/X11/X back to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (except I wasn't sure if that was the right link to change). Also, I notice /usr/X11R6/bin/X is linked to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper. I didn't know if this is an issue. Then I would copy the new config file template, /etc/X11/XF86Config.rpmnew, into either /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Here I wondered which of these two files is really used. I couldn't easily tell what that was all about. I thought the second choice would be easier to reverse. In the case of the first choice, I wasn't sure if I could easily reverse it by re-installing the rpms mentioned above for SVGA and compat-modules-3.36-42 and changing the links and /etc/X11/XF86Config files back. However, the first choice might work better for me, since I really know very little beyond running Xconfigurator for doing the setup. Any insight into the best way to try out the new drivers would be greatly appreciated. Ideally, whatever I do would be reversible in case the new drivers don't work, and easily configured using one of the configuration tools, since I really would have a long way to go if I have to learn in detail how to make changes significant changes in the configuration files themselves. Thanks, Bill Wraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
