On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Maxim Belous wrote: >Sorry for probable offtopic, but I hope it won't take much time to >answer my question, if someone has a necessary experience. I've >just upgraded XFree86 4.0.3 (standard for Seawolf distro) to XFree >4.1.0 taken in binaries from its home site. It works nice, but now >I cannot use Xconfigurator utility anymore; if dies with core >dumped. An install note provided with 4.1.0 recommends to use > > XFree86 -configure > >But when I try to do it from console (switching there from X - to, >e.g., <Alt>+<Ctrl>+<F1>) it says the server is already active for >display 0. My problem is that I don't know how to stop X: there is >no appropriate script in /etc/rc.d/init.d. Would anyone please tell >me how to stop it?
Anyone using the XFree86 supplied binaries of any release is going to end up having certain problems in Red Hat Linux. These problems are not unsolveable mind you, but there is a better way to avoid them altogether. The easy way, is to use Red Hat supplied XFree86 4.1.0 RPM packages from rawhide, along with dependancies. That ensures that all of the config files are in the right place, and integrate properly with 'the big picture'. The XFree86.org supplied binaries will work, or should, however they are not designed or built to integrate into Red Hat Linux. They are generalized binaries not specific to any one distribution. As such, using them will break RPM integration, kill dependancy checking, and muck with various integrated scripts. Xconfigurator looks for certain files in certain locations. While it probably should not be segfaulting, it isn't likely to work properly with files not in locations it expects. ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide You'll also need the Mesa RPM's, xinitrc, and optionally the new kudzu and Xconfigurator are also recommended. To use DRI, you'll need the latest kernel as well, as it supplies kernel-drm = 4.1.0 which is a requirement of XFree86 4.1.0 RPM's. Hope this helps. If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargill, C++ Journal, Fall 1990. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
