On Monday 08 January 2001 04:24 pm, Adrian Smith wrote:
> i followed Toms post from 22 Dec in which he describes how to upgrade
> X401 to X402. ok, downloaded all the files Tom listed (and one more
> which i needed to satisfy dependencys) put them all together in a dir
> executed "rpm -Uvh *" > no errors, seemed to go ok.
> however, when i check my version of X is still reports 4.0.1
> i was hoping this would clear up my display problems, but hasn't done
> a thing. i am using the SiS640 and have heard it works better under
> the 4.0.2 version. > also XF86config and "XFree86 -configure" both
result in a white
> screen with a black X for the mouse curser, then lock up my system.
> had to power down to get out. the XF86cfg however does work. i used
> that to set up X. still got the same bad video, still reports
> version 4.0.1. > is there something else that i must yet do??
Well, I was gonna say you need to restart the X server, .... was
that a normal power (shut down) down or did you just kill power and
then need to fsck? That might've corrupted the system. I really
don't know what could be your problem (I'll spare you my opinion about
anything SiS). Try 'rpm --rebuilddb', then you might try 'rpm -Uvh
--allfiles *' on the XF rpms if that doesn't work. I believe that
replaces the rpm files whether they need it or not. Then 'X -version'
should say "XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System ..... i686" You do
have a i686 proccessor, right ? Those were 686 rpms. What does
'rpm -qa | grep XFree' say?
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
