I have nothing specific to offer except to suggest that you check XF86's website for docs and possibly a newslist (if you haven't already). The originators of the system should be the first stop for problems. Look through your local NNTP server for newsgroups with ".x". Hope this might help you widen your search a little. Regards, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Michael George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 28, 2001 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.1-1 functionality-followup On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:56:40AM -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: > David Grill Watson wrote: > > I have discovered a further confounding factor. Although 'rpm -q XFree86' > reports that I have XFree86-4.0.1-1 installed when I look int '/etc/X11' I find > two files : XF86Config and XF86Config-4. It is my understanding that the file > read by >= XFree86-4x should be XF86Config-4. However in '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11' > the XF86Config file is linked to '/etc/X11/XF86Config' and if I relink it to > '/etc/X11/XF86Config-4' the Xserver won't restart. > > I do not find any section called 'modules' in the plain '/etc/X11/XF86Config' > file although it does exist in '/etc/X11/XF86Config-4' file so that was > probably the original problem - now however I don't know which file I should > leave and which I should delete/rename especially since the XF86Config-4 > version didn't seem to work! > > The install was a fress RH7 with all updates and errata installed. The HD was > complete reformatted at install time. No other upgrades or additions have > occurred other than installing 'AbiSuite'. > > Ideas? I'm afraid I have nothing to offer in the way of help, but I have a similar curiosity. I'm right now trying to figure out why the meta (Alt_L) key on my keyboard will work on the VT, but will send an accented 'a' when X is running. I'd rather it be Meta so that I can do my bash command-line editing. In the process of investigating it, I found something else unusual: I have a new system on which I installed RH6.2. I left a 1Gb partition for testing new systems and on that I installed 7.0. I had it working find (more or less :) so I upgraded the 6.2 partitions to 7.0. Only the test partition has the XF86Config-4 file, and the main partitions don't use the meta key right. However, my machine at work, which I upgraded from 6.1 to 7.0 uses the Meta key correctly. Oops, correct that. I noticed that I do now have it on my main partitions, but it was only put there about 1/2hr ago, so it must get there when you run "Xconfigurator --preferxf4"... Then, when I checked out all the XFree86 packages, I noticed that some of them are 4.0.1, which others are 3.3.6. The thing that irks me is that the Xconfigurator doesn't do any keyboard setup. There's xf86config, which seems to do more, but that doesn't improve my sitation at all. There's also the package XFree86-xf86cfg, which uses a GUI interface and generates radically different config files (presumably for XFree86 4.x), but installing that in place of /etc/X11/XF86Config would cause an instant return from "xinit" and "startx". I'm back to my old XF86Config file that was generated by the installation/setup scripts from when I put 7.0 on here. Incidentally, that one gave a recommended configuration (1280x1024 at depth 32) but running Xconfigurator (from the command line) wouldn't. Other than that, seemed to be the same. If there's any place where I can find some info on how all this XFree86 3.3.6 intermingled w/ 4.0.1 and the differences between Xconfigurator, xf86config, xf86cfg, etc, I'd love to read it! In the mean time, if anyone can tell me how I can get my Alt_L key to be recognized by bash in an xterm as meta, I'd love to hear it. After I have that figgered out, I'm ready to start into the hard part of getting apache, mysql, and php all interacting right... -Michael -- No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
