On 2 Dec 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >Date: 02 Dec 2002 21:43:43 -0600 >From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu> >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!!!! i830 graphics problems > >>>>>> "LM" == Larry Meyer, <Larry> writes: > >LM> I am a newbie to UNIX and LINUX. and I need help in getting my >LM> Latitude c400's graphics to work correctly. > >I've set up a couple of c400 machines running Red Hat 8.0 plus >hand-compiled XFree from CVS and everything works fine. Two things to >note: > >The default kernel with RH8 will die when coming back from a suspend; >the update kernels (or a 586 kernel) will fix this. There's no >special patch to install; just get the packages and run "rpm -i" on >them, or let up2date do it for you. > >The development XFree packages available from Mike Harris (see the list >archives) should make installing updated XFree significantly easier >than building it by hand. All you should need to do is download all >of these packages and run "rpm -F" on them. Of course, they're >experimental development packages so they may be busted but if they >work they're the simplest way to get this going. rpm -F is not sufficient. That will merely upgrade packages that are already installed, but it will not install any of the new packages, some of which are required. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
