On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Peter Johnson wrote: >XF86_SVGA is the old (v 3.3.6) X server for a wide range of svga-capable >chips, including some of the Chips and Technologies video controllers. >Redhat does some odd stuff with X; check /etc/X11 directory to see whether >you're configured for v 3.3.6 (XF86Config only) or v 4.1 (XF86Config-4 is >present).
You'll find that most distributions out there ship both 3.3.6 and 4.x X servers and allow the end user to switch between them in order to get the best support. This isn't a "Red Hat" thing, it is something that was done so that people who had hardware unsupported by XFree86 4.x, could still use the system during the beginning of the changeover to 4.x. All Linux distributions have shipped both, and follow a similar way of allowing them to co-exist. Nonetheless, I'm interested on hearing from you what exactly is "odd" about the way we do things, and how that differs from what other distributions have done to allow coexistance. You may also be interested to find out that the whole XF86Config/XF86Config-4 config files are something which was created by XFree86.org to allow the coexistance of both versions of XFree86 until the older hardware could have drivers ported to the new architecture, or become irrelevant. Many people have thought this was some "Red Hat invention". They are wrong, and hopefully now informed of reality. Red Hat, like other distributions, have used this functionality graciously provided by the XFree86 team to allow coexistance and maximize the number of users that could use XFree86 in the distribution. Those who have read the documentation provided by XFree86 however would already know this. man XF86Config Note the location of the config files. Note that Red Hat did not modify this. >If you must use Redhat, use Xconfigurator to keep this silliness >straight and make sure things are done as Redhat expects. Again, you only illustrate your lack of knowledge of XFree86, and that this is not a Red Hat whim. It is a documented feature of XFree86 which exists for a reason. Read that documentation, and learn before rambling FUD. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
