[Newbie]XFree86-4.2 not work on RH7.3: HELP!

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Hi,
In case vesa has remained unaccelerated downgrading to 3.3.6 may be the better alternative...
Lionel

--- Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Sounds like your chip isn't supported by the S3 driver in 4.x. Whereas
> RH 7.2 on your machine may well have been using 3.3.6.
> 
> This seems to be stinging quite a few people with S3 cards.
> 
> The quick fix, is to modify your XF86Config file and change the
> line that says.
> 
> 	Driver "s3"
> 
> to
> 
> 	Driver "vesa"
> 
> Other than that, you'll need to drop back to 3.3.6.
> 
> Alan.
> 
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:39:16 -0400, NGUYEN DAI Quy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm using RH7.2 (kernel 2.4.9) with XFree86-4.1 on S3 Triov64 card. It 
> > works fine.
> > When I try to install RH7.3 (XFree86-4.2.x): my card was detected OK, 
> > the X server test during installation is OK. But after reboot,  I can 
> > not run X at all. When I type "startx", XFree86 gives me an error about 
> > config file, which was created by RH installer.
> > 
> > So I try Xconfigurator but NO LUCK because this program gives 
> > me a core dump file :(
> > 


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