[XFree86] Upgrading Xwindows

[Kyle --]

Hi,
I've been told that my video card is too new for my version of Xfree86 and 
that I should upgrade.  Which would be easier and less prone to errors.
a)  Removing all of the xwindows packages with the redhat package manager.
or 
b)  Reinstalling over the old version.
I've tried reinstalling over the old version already and had problems.  But 
I'll give that a second try.
Also.  Should I remove the current window managers as well or will they 
still work on the newer version.
Thanks!

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[XFree86] Upgrading XWindows

[Philip Sinfield]

Hi,

I run RedHat 8 on a ASUS laptop (Intel 830M integrated video) with Gnome
2.

I recently installed a DVD/MPEG player (mplayer) successfully and
noticed that the current version of XFree86 (4.2) that I was using
didn't support hardware acceleration in the 830M.  So  I downloaded
the latest version (4.3) which has support for Intel chipset and did the
install.  Fortunately, I saved my existing setup because nothing worked
after the install.  X refused to load.  I eventually was able to get TWM
to work after disabling runlevel 5 and using startx instead of gdm.  I
have since copied back my old XFree86 distribution and am back where I
started.

Does anybody have any ideas where I went wrong?

Thanks,
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School of Software Engineering  Data Communications
Faculty of Information Technology, QUT
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