No, I'm sure it isn't a software bug. What I would say is that it is an incompatibility between my old hardware and the latest release of Red Hat. I understand that compatibility with every possible hardware out there is impossible, but I was just wondering if anyone had a clue for a work-around. The problems with the missing libXft.so.2 and libXrandr.so.2 are conflicts between several applications, such as gnome, that come with Red Hat 9.0 that used version 1 of these libraries in previous releases. The reason I got the complaints was because I forced an installation (not upgrade) "down" to 4.2.0 just to see if having 4.2.0 but leaving some of the new libraries from 4.3.0 would work. It does get me further, in that the graphic screen comes up with the "x" mouse cursor, but soon either returns to the console complaining that these libraries are missing (even though they are actually there, but I suppose no longer linked in or something), or gives me some other error, such as "gnone (or KDE) could not initialize", something like that. I have since reinstalled 8.0 completely and it works now, but I sure wish I could upgrade to 9.0. Is there a way to have both version 1 and version 2 of these libX libs available, or to ugrade everything EXCEPT X Windows to Red Hat 9.0? I suspect the latter wouldn't work; that I would get failed dependency errors when I tried to install gnome, KDE, etc. since the version 2 libs all come from the xfree86 4.3 libs, right? The only other solution I can think of would be to trace through the source to see exactly what line the Compaq is blowing up on, but I don't yet know how to do that sort of think in Linux. Is there a "startx -debug_turn_screen_echo_on_and_press_F7_to_step_into_each_line_in_all_these_ scripts_and_or_libraries" type of command? :) Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
