On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Joseph Wilwayco wrote:
> I'm new to Linux so bear with me here... I really wanted to know what X is
> like so I borrowed RH 5.2 from ACM yesterday. After successfully installing
> RH 5.2, I typed in <startx> and it gave me some error message saying that I
> had to configure it first... Typing <XF86Setup>, I went to the configuration
> screen. To cut to the chase, the RIVA TNT is not yet supported by the
> XFree86 system that comes with the CD. How do I get support for it w/o
> downloading version 3.3.3.1?
You can try just downloading the server, might not work if it needs the
rest of the 3.3.3 libraries to work.
> Second question, if I wanted to get Xfree86 3.3.3.1 which files
> do I download and how do I install them. I am dual booting with win98
> (meaning, I could d/l from win98 but how do I convert so that unix/linux can
> read it?) Thanx!
you could d/l it with Linux -- you don't need X to get things working
enough to fix X. Or you could d/l it with win98 -- no changes necessary
except to mount the win98 partition if you havne't already.
The packages you need are everything you've got installed for XF86 (rpm
-qa | egrep XF86) that as a newer version in
ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/updates/5.2/i386
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