On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:57:56PM -0400, Jan Carlson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:46:55PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
> > I'm having some problems getting X11 to start on a fresh install of seawolf on
> > an old machine. I'm hoping someone can help...
> >
> > When I did the install, it detected an ATI video card and said that the
> > XFree86 server supported it. When I got to monitor configuring, I had to punt
> > because I can't find the manual to my circa '94 Zenith 17FTM monitor.
> >
> > However, kept the the XFree86Config file from my 7.0 installation (which was
> > an upgrade from 6.x, but it didn't work.
> >
> > So, I tried running Xconfigurator. Now Xconfigurator said that I needed the
> > XFree86-Mach64 server, so I installed that RPM. However, X still won't start
> > (it says no screens found).
>
> After you put in XFree86-Mach64 you need to run Xconfigurator again.
Okay, I got that working (but I had to manually change the link /etc/X11/X to
point to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 from XFree86). The bigger question is:
Why when I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 did RH not oust the 3.3.6 server and put
in the 4.0.3 server?
And the other question: if the 4.0.3 XFree86 server can support the ATI
natively, why can it not run my ATI Mach 64 card at 1024x768x16 when
XF86_Mach64 could? I was surprised, but since XF86_Mach64 3.3.6 can do it, I
just put that back...
-Michael
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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
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