Hey, why should you apologize, feel free...! By the way Andrew might well be right: may be that just comes from upgrading from RH 7.x to RH 8.0 and keeping some of the config files... Cheers Lionel
--- "Oisin C. Feeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Lionel Lecoq wrote: > >--- "Oisin C. Feeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Assad wrote: > >> >Regarding: Cannot open x-window after the installation of redhat 8.0 > >> >connection graphic > >> >XFree86 Version: Linux 2.4.18-11 smp i686 > >> >OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0 > >> >Server: XF86_S3 > >> > >> How can this be? XF86_S3 is one of the separate servers that existed > >> before XFree86-4.x.x which is what shipped with Red Hat 8.0, so I don't > >> see how that can be your server. > >> > >> Try reconfiguring with "redhat-config-xfree86". Read the RELEASE-NOTES > >> and all the relevant Red Hat supplied documentation. > >> > >This is not the first time this thing with XF86_S3 is mentioned within > >RH 8.0 problems, I believe it even appeared in the XF86Config of one of > >the people concerned. Which is why I did not answer the mail (I would > >have said the same thing as Oisin)... Has RH renamed something? Is > >there still an X 3.3.6 lurking in the background as with RH 7.x? Lionel > > I too seem to recall seeing this before on the list Lionel and it > baffled me then as it does now. I suspect that the OP is either not > using Red Hat 8.0 or else that they've added or deleted XFree86 > components from the out-of-the-box install. > > If I do a search for documentation on this on my Red Hat 8.0 > installation I find the following: > [ofeeley]$ less /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386 > > "Legacy XFree86 3.3.6 video hardware support has now been removed from > the distribution and is no longer supported. XFree86 4.2.0 is now the > only X server shipped with Red Hat Linux." > > It then goes on to say that if there is no XFree86 4.x driver available > _or_ it doesn't work properly it tries to use VESA. Failing that it > tries to use VGA. > > So, I have no idea how the OP got this error message. > > (p.s. I changed your message to be included as a "bottom-post-reply" and > shortened the line-wrap length Lionel because I find it easier to see > that way. Apologies if that seems high-handed). > > Oisin Feeley > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
