Am 2002.09.30 01:10 schrieb(en) James P. Roberts: > > Thanks, Roy and Stephen! > > Have already been to the xfree.org site. Downloaded all the good stuff. > I ran into two problems: > > (1) Not packaged as an RPM, so if I use it, it won't be tracked by the > RPM database system. "Not end of world, but I can see it > from there!" > > (2) Xinstall.sh provided by xfree.org does not install in quite the same > way as RedHat does, so things break. I would have to track > down pretty much every link in the rather extensive number of files > involved in a "startx" process. Ack. (I suppose it would be a > good learning process, if I had the time). > > All that said, I finally got XFree86-4.1.0-25 (most recent provided for > RedHat 7.1) to work on my box with the SiS chipset. Not all > works, though, particularly drm and dri stuff. > > Just to annoy me, RedHat DOES have 4.2.0 rpm's for newer versions of > RedHat! > > Jim >
Yes, sure there are newer RPMs for _newer_ versions of Red Hat. I have got 4.2.0-8 here which comes with RH 7.3. But you asked also about 4.2.1 ;-) Concerning XFree86 I often updated the X version that came with Red Hat. Normally, I got the source code (from XFree86.org), compiled and installed it over an existing XFree86 installation and never run into problems. But I never tried out to _install_ "updated" RPMs of X which have been compiled for another version of RH. If you want to test this I would recommend you to grab the source SRPMs and try to compile them on your RH 7.1 box. If it does not matter what RH version you run, than get a copy of RH 7.3 or wait some time and get the forthcoming release 8.0. Then, you will get more or less some actual version of X;-) Bye, Stephan -- Stephan Andr� Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~ingalo/ - get sambafax working with LPRng _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
