RE: [Newbie]Trouble Installing XFree86 4.2.0

[Jason J.W. Pock]

Hi everybody –   First of all, much thanks to everyone who tried to help me install Linux.  I have my biggest issues worked out, so I thought I’d share my experience with everyone because you just never know…   My configuration: - Soyo Motherboard - P2 400 Processor - Radeon VE video card - Misc other unimportant stuff   First I tried to install Redhat 7.1, but that didn’t work.  The reason was that my machine would try to load X but fail, and then repeat the process over and over.  It looked like the screen was flashing.  Next, I tried to get rid of the graphical logon (which means X doesn’t try to load automatically).  I also played with color depths, resolutions, etc.  Still no love.  I would type “startx” but it just wouldn’t run!  Then I tried installing Redhat 7.2, but that had the same problem.  I tried running “Xconfigurator”, but every combination of options led me to the same screen “There is an error with your setup.”  Then I tried the newest version of Debian, and I had different X problems, but still couldn’t use it.  Then I went back to Redhat 7.2 but updated to XFree86 4.2.0.  That didn’t work either because of some Glide library problems that no one seemed to know how to resolve.   Just today I tried MANDRAKE LINUX.  It worked like a charm.  I have some minor problems like my wheel mouse not scrolling in most programs, but on the whole, everything is beautiful.  If you guys out there had similar issues, give Mandrake a shot.  I didn’t even have to fool with configurations or any of that.  It was like “Is this setting correct?”  So you KNOW what I said!!  (HEEEEEEEEEEEELLZ YEAH!)   Well I hope that helps!   -Jason   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of webdesk Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]Trouble Installing XFree86 4.2.0   Hi,   I am having the same problem when  load XFree86-4.2.0 on my redhat 7.2 ix86 system.  I tried renaming the libglide3.so to libglide2x.so, just to see, and still no go.  Any ideas on howto fix this?   William ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason J.W. Pock To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:23 PM Subject: RE: [Newbie]Trouble Installing XFree86 4.2.0   Hi everybody –   Thanks to everyone who has helped me try to solve my problems.  As it stands, this e-mail that I’m responding to is my exact problem!!!!!  I have a Radeon VE, but everything else is the same.  I have Redhat 7.2 and I tried to install XFree86 4.2.0.  After the installation, I run the ‘XFree86 –configure’ (just as the instructions say), and I have the EXACT same error:   Could not load the shared library file for Glide: “libglide2x.so”!   How can I fix this?  Did KM and I both do something wrong?  Is there an undocumented step?  Obviously this isn’t a rare problem, so it should be easy to fix, right?   -Jason     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of DT Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Newbie]Trouble Installing XFree86 4.2.0    I have been trying to get XFree86 4.2.0 to install on Redhat 7.2 with my Radeon 8500 card, but I am having trouble. It worked just fine on my previous RedHat 7.2 installation, but not this time around. I have verified that I used the correct binaries, and there were no problems encountered with the installation over XFree86 3.3 (which came with RedHat).   After installation when I run 'xfree86 -configure' I get an error telling me that a Glide library file that is needed can't be found. The library file it wants is libglide2x.so, and in my usr/lib directory there are only libglide3.so, libglide3.so.3 and libglide.so.3.10.0 I tried linking each of those files into X11R6/lib/modules as libglide2x.so, but that was a no go. Why does XFree86 want Glide to run the configuration anyway?   Anyone have any help, or experienced the same problem? I will try to supply any additional information that I can if needed. Thanks in advance for any help!   -KM