Machine load out: SuperMicro P6DBU 440BX mobo w/AGP Dual PII 450 processors 256MB PC100 ECC ram IBM 7200RPM 13G HDD VisionTek nVidia GeForce2 MX 400 64MB AGP
OS/support software prior to upgrade: Red Hat Linux 6.1 - kernel upgraded to 2.2.14-12 w/header files agpgart.o module compiled and available via insmod only (won't auto load) XFree86 3.3.5 with all fonts, xfm, all available window managers, GNOME, gdm, gqview, rxvt, xinitrc, XFree86-FBDev, XFree86-Mono, XFree86-SVGA, XFree86-VGA16, XFree86-XF86Setup, XFree86-Xnest, XFree86-Xvfb, and Xconfigurator installed as RPM packages. Card configured and operating normally under VGA16 server (save for the cramped desktop). Set runlevel in /etc/inittab to 3. Upgrade process (as root): Downloaded all XFree86-4.1.0 tarballs and install scripts for x86 system under linux-x86-glibc21 folder via ftp. I did not uninstall the XFree86-3.3.5 RPMs before the upgrade. Proceeded with install after backing up /etc/X11/* using `sh Xinstall.sh' and insuring that script ran properly. Install reported successful upgrade. Had to run xf86config as no other configuration program would run. Rebooted, logged back in, then ran startx. Gdm came up as expected, but the normal blue background for GNOME was replaced with cross-hacthed black-and-white. After logging into Gdm, I could only bring up some kind of safe mode with tvm as the window manager. GNOME was present and running in the background, as I could pull up gmc to display files and the standard GNOME windows showed. Apparently, Enlightenment is mainly knocked out as desktop icons will only show after running Enlightement through another window. It automatically ran before. XF86config file looks normal, with no obvious xserver errors. I had a similar problem upgrading from XFree86-3.3.1 to XFree86-3.3.2 on RHL 5.2 under the same circumstances as above (then with a Matrox G200 AGP card). The quirky thing is that if I switch to runlevel 5, the mouse buttons lose function in tvm. Is there an RPM version of XFree86-4.1.0 that I can get, or is the jump from XFree86-3.3.5 to XFree-4.1.0 on a RHL 6.1 system just too big? If that's the case, will XFree86-3.3.6 provide me with the support I need for my GeForce 2 MX 400 card? If not, how can I change the way I installed to correct these issues? Like uninstalling the X RPMs first, then doing a fresh install of the XFree86-4.1.0 tarballs? Thanks, Maeglin Kiril Stormstrider "Dance the storm or it will dance you." ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
