Soren, Thank you for your help. I did what you said and got X working again. I was able to change the monitor settings and get the resolution I want also (I was about 15 minutes away from formatting my hard drive and putting red hat on here).
I'll play around with the quake thing for a little while, if I get now where I'll post here again. Thanks! -- Nathan On Monday 21 July 2003 11:33 pm, Soren Harward wrote: > On Mon 21 Jul 2003 at 15:58:04, Nathan Given said: > > Here's my output.... > > [snip !] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] nathan]$ rpm -qa | grep XFree86 > > XFree86-server-4.2.1-3mdk > > XFree86-libs-4.2.1-3mdk > > XFree86-xfs-4.2.1-3mdk > > XFree86-4.2.1-3mdk > > XFree86-devel-4.2.1-3mdk > > XFree86-server-common-3.3.6-28mdk > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Here ... > > > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-3mdk > > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-3mdk > > XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-28mdk > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > .. and here are the root of your problem. > > > so am I running XFree86 3.x or 4.x? > > You're running a 3.x server on top of a 4.x installation. How you > managed to do this, I don't know. Let's fix it and then tackle Quake. > > Since you're running the Mach64 server, you'll get better performance > switching to a 4.x server. To do this, remove the > XFree86-server-common-3.3.6-28mdk and XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-28mdk > packages. Force it if needs be. Then make sure that /etc/X11/X is a > symlink to the executable /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86, and that > /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper. > > At this point, try running just "X" from a command line (make sure > another X server isn't already running). Whether it gives you a generic > X screen (black/white stipple with X cursor) or not, make sure that the > output indicates it's a 4.2.1 server. > > Now you'll need to make a new configuration file. Run "X -configure". > This will generate a generic configuration file called XF86Config.new in > your HOME directory. Copy this to /etc/X11/XF86Config (or it might be > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see where it > looked for the config file -- it will be on a line starting "Using > config file:") > > If everything went fine, you'll be back to having an X configuration > using a 4.2.1 server instead of a 3.x server. If at any time things go > wrong, send us the output and a copy of your /var/log/XFree86.0.log > file. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
