Re: Re: Re: Virge GX (Derek Smith)

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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Feeley wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Derek Smith wrote:
> > Which means I have gone full circle back to the original question: How do I
> > tell it to run X3 and not X4? I try to remove X4 rpms and I can't because of
> > dependencies. Can I just use the RPM "upgrade"  in order to go from 4 to 3?

[snip]

> Details will vary for whatever *NIX/*BSD distro you are running, but the 
> bottom line is that wherever the standard place for the "X" binary is 
> supposed to be on your system, it must either be replaced with the 3.3.6 
> that you wish to run, or else symlinked to the 3.3.6 binary that you wish 
> to run.

[snip]

Sorry to reply to myself, but I should also have mentioned that /etc/X11/X 
should be a symbolic link to the desired XF86-3.3.6 binary.  (Which IIRC 
would be the /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA in RedHat).

Oisin Feeley

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