> I am a real newbie when it comes to upgrading XFree86. My first attemp
> was a disaster. I tried to do everything in the installation document on
> the XFree86.org web site. I have some newbie questions.
don't follow the directions on xfree86.org. just get the packages
for your distro, and install using those.
the binaries you'll find on xfree86.org will work, but they might
not integrate with your distro the way the old ones did.
you'll find that downloading the X 4.1.0 rpms (in your case), and
then doing (as root) rpm -Uvh XFree86*.rpm will be much easier. no need for
Xinstall.sh; shouldn't be any need for post-install tweaking (provided it
was all working to begin with).
> How do you exit the X session and stop xdm? Is this really necessary for
> Red Hat 7.1?
you *can* actually get away with upgrading X while it's running (I
do it all the time). You'll just have to restart it to get the new version
(some things might not work right until you restart). just 'logging out'
from your desktop environment will shut it down. (or ctrl+alt+backspace if
there isn't a convenient shutdown button available).
Carl Soderstrom.
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