On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:00:43 -0500, "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 07:07 pm, cervixcouch wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:17:22 +1000, "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > said: > > > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 06:20, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > On Monday 01 September 2003 20:13, Richard Urwin wrote: > > > > > I ran through it no problem. You do need to do it with X stopped: > > > > > ctrl-Alt-F2, login as root and "telinit 3". Run the script and then > > > > > read the README and edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to suit the > > > > > new driver; (one line to change, one line to comment out.) Before you > > > > > can get back to the GUI. But if that all makes sense then it's dead > > > > > easy. > > > > > > > > > > Hint: I used "startx" to check it was all working, "telinit 5" > > > > > doesn't give you the console error messages. > > > > > > > > > > I seem to have lost anti-aliasing in the GUI, so I think I'll be > > > > > visiting the driver options sometime soon. > > > > > > > > Ok, I'm getting ready to do it. I think I've gathered most of the info > > > > I need. Still, I have a question: How can you edit the XF86Config-4 > > > > file ? Using cat ? > > > > > > Use "vi" to do the editing - but make a backup copy first! > > > > Once you've pressed Ctrl+Alt+F2 and (re-)logged in, how do you restart > > the previous X session? > > > > When I type 'startx', I get an error message that its already running. > > -- > > cervixcouch > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can hit ctl-alt-F7 and it should return to the xserver screen you had > been > in. HTH
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