On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 02:10:11 Tim Faehnle wrote: > > Okay, Does Mandrake 7.2 come with 4.0.1 or not? I'm confused by Mandrake > install. (it's buggy and ill-designed, but that's a different discussion) > It comes both with 3.3.6 and 4.0.1, that is the part that can be confusing you. > install is finished and booted, I type "XFree86 -version" and I get 4.0.1. > WTF? XFree86 always give 4.0+ because it is the name for the unified X server under 4.0. In other words, there is no XFree86 program in 3.3.6, you have a bunch of independent X servers: XF86_SVGA, XF86_S3, XF86_I128... > Nothing tells me if that's what I'm supposed to see.). Okay, then I just > overwrite the old /etc/X11/XF86Config with this new one (making a backup of > course and removing the .new extension). Bad attempt. As in MDK 7.2, 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 can live together, the file named XF86Config is for 3.3.6, and XF86Config-4 for 4.0.1. So you should put your new file in place of -4. > Then I type "startx" and it says > that it can't even recognize the keyword "ServerLayout", which happens to be > the first keyword in the new XF86Config, and it fails. What did I do wrong? StartX just tries to launch /etc/X11/X as server, that is supposed to point to the right one (is a symlink). In your case it seems to point to some server in the 3.3.6 series, that fails to read the new config tags. Change it to point to the 4 series (ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X). And check manually the settings (driver selection and so on) in the -4 config file. I don't know how good is the configurator to guess your hardware. -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #> more beer Linux 2.2.18-pre24-vm #2 SMP Wed Nov 29 02:56:21 CET 2000 i686 unknown
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