On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Epelboim wrote: >I'm running Red Hat 7.2 and it installs XFree86 3.3.6a and >apparently 4.1.0 too but I cannot run 4.1.0, I have tried >customs installs and it keeps installing 3.3.6a > >Does anyone knows how can I force it to install 4.1.0 or how >can I make it run in 4.1.0 if it is already installed? (the >GnoRPM shows 4.1.0 package installed)
All 7.x releases of Red Hat Linux come with XFree86 4.x as the primary XFree86 distribution, and for backwards compatibility also the XFree86 3.3.6 servers. Only the servers. The "Cards" database defaults to using the 4.x server for all hardware. Any hardware which is not supported at all by 4.x, but which is supported by 3.3.6, is overridden in the Cards database to use the 3.3.6 server by default instead. Hardware which has been shown to work poorly, or not at all with the 4.x drivers, has also been flagged to use 3.3.6 by default. This maximizes the chance that someone gets a working X server upon installation and/or reconfiguration. Sometimes, due to lack of feedback from users, and lack of some of the more obscure hardware for testing, some of the entries in the Cards database may become outdated, and the 4.x server may now support a piece of hardware that it did not in the past. As such, Xconfigurator can be overridden to use XFree86 4.x or 3.3.6 explicitly, by using: Xconfigurator --preferxf4 or Xconfigurator --preferxf3 Note, that if you override a selection that defaults to a 3.3.6 server, it is entirely possible that the results will be unstable. However, if you do find it works well, and have banged a lot on it, with all XFree86 features enabled, etc.. Please feel free to inform us via filing a bug report in bugzilla that a particular card now works in 4.x, and the 3.3.6 flag can be removed. Include any details you needed to do to get the card to work, and include your XFree86.0.log startup log, and your XF86Config-4 config file for analysis as file attachments to the bug report. Also include any other relevant details. I will then try to integrate the change into further releases. Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Hope this helps you out. Thanks. TTYL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
