On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, FT wrote: >Thanks...but it takes ages to download the binary files to upgrade to RH 8.0 >and then to make a cdrom etc....although I have registered with RH's Basic >Support can they send me the CDROMS Red Hat Network Basic support allows you priority access to download updates via up2date, as well as download CDROM ISO images at high speed via Red Hat Network. Red Hat Network does not provide updates in the form of mailed out CDROMs however. I provide information below on how to update your system using the Red Hat Network up2date service. >So the best bet is it really to upgrade.... can 't we have a >workaround this problem...???? Sorry, but the problem is that you are using a default installation of a rather old version of Red Hat Linux, and you have not applied Red Hat's released software updates. The problem you're having could be one of many things, but there's no way to know for sure without more information. The problem could be one of: 1) Possible misconfiguration - if this is the case, assuming your hardware is supported, and you've just misconfigured it, or the tools we provide have misconfigured it, then the solution is to reconfigure it properly (perhaps requiring assistance from the mailing list of course). If this is the problem, it is possible that one of us here on this list might be able to help. or 2) It is possible that your hardware is too new, and Red Hat Linux 7.1 is too old. If this is the case, and your hardware is not supported - you have no option other than to upgrade at least to the latest updates for Red Hat Linux 7.1 (assuming XFree86 4.1.0 would solve the problem, but that is just conjecture at this point as we don't yet know what the problem is). or 3) It's possible that your hardware is just totally unsupported in 7.1, in which case it probably will never be supported in 7.1. If this is the case, then your only option would be to upgrade to a release that supports the hardware you're using. Which of those scenarios is the correct one (or some other scenario that I've perhaps not thought of) it is hard to say. We would need to know more about the problem first to be able to make such a conclusion. One thing is certain though - if you aren't using the latest updates that we've released for a given OS product, and you're having a problem, it is entirely possible (although by no means is it guaranteed) that the software updates we've provided might fix the problem. Troubleshooting a problem that is possibly fixed in a software update isn't good use of time though, so you're strongly recommended to update, since the currently supported XFree86 configuration on Red Hat Linux 7.1, is XFree86 XFree86-4.1.0-25 running under kernel-2.4.9-34. Once we've released new updates, the older software is replaced by the new, and the older software is unsupported. So, my current recommendation, is to upgrade your kernel to our latest Red Hat Linux 7.1 kernel: up2date -f kernel or if you're using SMP: up2date -f kernel-smp And then upgrade XFree86: up2date XFree86 That will pull in any required dependancies as well. If the problem you're experiencing continues, then please provide the details, and someone on the list (possibly myself), can try to help determine what is going wrong. Or you can update your whole system all at once (strongly recommended) by doing: up2date -u Note that if you do not update your system to the latest software packages we have released for Red Hat Linux 7.1, that it is highly likely that your system is vulnerable to many security problems that have been fixed in software updates we've released in the last 2 years. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
