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From: "Paul Hoepfner-Homme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 7:40 PM
Subject: [Cooker] XFree86 4.0 - segfaults
> I tried to install XFree86 4.0 on Beta 2 of Mandrake 7.1 using the
> RPMs from contrib. I managed to forcefully uninstall all the XFree86
> 3.3.6 RPMs that are installed by default, and install all the
> necessary XFree86 4.0 RPMs. But when I try to run X by typing startx,
> it almost loads, but then just before it's about to display the screen
> with the X cursor it segfaults back to the console, and the entire
> screen is messed; I can just barely make out what is being displayed
> in the console. (Switching consoles doesn't fix the screen, I have to
> reboot for that.)
>
> I have an nVidia RIVA TNT card, and I tried it both the old nVidia
> driver ("nv") and the new beta nVidia driver ("nvidia") and they both
> do the same thing. I had XFree86 4.0 working without problems back in
> Mandrake 7.0 with both the "nv" and "nvidia" drivers, but it just
> doesn't work with 7.1 beta. I am even using the same XF86Config file
> that I had in 7.0. I had to uninstall XFree86 4.0 and put back 3.3.6
> so I could get into X.
>
> Anyone else have a similar experience?
>
I installed 4.0 over 3.36 by forcing the 4.0 libs and then the rest
installed fine. Now it runs fine. Even dual head.
Hoyt
