Thanks to all your support ...I think I forgot also to mention that this problem happened while I was actually upgrading with up2date ...and everything before that was fine ...so could it be that a newer version of XFree86 could not support even a not so old video card ..I would have thought it would...??? Thanks Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 2:26 AM Subject: Re: X Problem > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > >> I no longer remember how to change to XF86-3.3.x in RHL > >> though it was possible. > > > >Install it (it can live side by side with version 4 servers) > >and switch an /etc/X11/X link to your desired server. Make > >sure that /etc/X11/XF86Config is in 3 format (it should be > >if you have also XF86Config-4). That is about all. > > 3.3.6 would already be installed, unless one force deselected it > during installation of the OS. > > "Xconfigurator --preferxf3" gives you 3.3.6 in all RHL 7.x > releases. > > People are strongly discouraged from making the X server symbolic > links by hand and editing the config file by hand unless they're > fairly adept at doing so. Xconfigurator called either without > options or with the option above, should "do the right thing" > basically. > > This hardware will work, however it isn't exactly cutting edge or > top of the supported list. It's more or less considered legacy > "hope it works" hardware. > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
