Not necessarily. Depending if you need features from 4.x, like RENDER or XINERAMA etc. Alan. On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:32:52 -0700, Lionel Lecoq wrote: > 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 :( > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
