RE: Configuring X

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OK, now I'm confused.

You say that I should copy my current /etc/X11/X to make a backup, and then
recreate X as a symbolic link which points to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA.

OK, fine, I understand the mechanics for doing that.

The problem is that the /etc/X11/X symbolic link already points to that
location. It comes that way with RedHat 7.3.

You say to go back to 3.3.6, so I'm guessing that you mean me to download
the files , and install it from scratch.  Which I am now attempting to do.

Incidently, I attempted to install 4.2 from scratch, and was met with the
error that Glide was not installed. (specific issue was with libglide2x.so
not being found.)

Running the preinst.sh for 3.3.6 tells me that I need to update my ld.so to
1.7.14.  As I'm currently running GNU ld version 2.11.93.0.2 20020207, I'm
not feeling real good about this.  I'll screw up the entire system just to
get an obsolete version of X running.






-----Original Message-----
From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On
Behalf Of Lionel Lecoq
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:37 AM
To: newbie@XFree86.Org
Subject: RE: Configuring X


I had a look in the archives possibly Alan Hourihane could help if he is
following the list these
days...
I would definitely go back to 3.3.6 (just backup /etc/X11/X and recreate X
as a symlink to
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA)
then XF86Config will be used
there you have to watch out (see
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/maddin_xcirrus.html)
good luck
Lionel


--- "David E. Fitzgerald" <fitz@genuity.net> wrote:
> RedHat 7.3 does support both versions, and the Xconfigurator has
> a --preferx3 | --preferx4 switch.  Both files XF86Config and XF86Config-4
> automatically get built in /etc/X11.
>


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