On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Lionel Lecoq wrote: >--- "Oisin C. Feeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Assad wrote: >> >Regarding: Cannot open x-window after the installation of redhat 8.0 >> >connection graphic >> >XFree86 Version: Linux 2.4.18-11 smp i686 >> >OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0 >> >Server: XF86_S3 >> >> How can this be? XF86_S3 is one of the separate servers that existed >> before XFree86-4.x.x which is what shipped with Red Hat 8.0, so I don't >> see how that can be your server. >> >> Try reconfiguring with "redhat-config-xfree86". Read the RELEASE-NOTES >> and all the relevant Red Hat supplied documentation. >> >This is not the first time this thing with XF86_S3 is mentioned within >RH 8.0 problems, I believe it even appeared in the XF86Config of one of >the people concerned. Which is why I did not answer the mail (I would >have said the same thing as Oisin)... Has RH renamed something? Is >there still an X 3.3.6 lurking in the background as with RH 7.x? Lionel
I too seem to recall seeing this before on the list Lionel and it baffled me then as it does now. I suspect that the OP is either not using Red Hat 8.0 or else that they've added or deleted XFree86 components from the out-of-the-box install. If I do a search for documentation on this on my Red Hat 8.0 installation I find the following: [ofeeley]$ less /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386 "Legacy XFree86 3.3.6 video hardware support has now been removed from the distribution and is no longer supported. XFree86 4.2.0 is now the only X server shipped with Red Hat Linux." It then goes on to say that if there is no XFree86 4.x driver available _or_ it doesn't work properly it tries to use VESA. Failing that it tries to use VGA. So, I have no idea how the OP got this error message. (p.s. I changed your message to be included as a "bottom-post-reply" and shortened the line-wrap length Lionel because I find it easier to see that way. Apologies if that seems high-handed). Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
