Sorry if I was not clear, /etc/X11/X IS a symlink to the X server assuming that -as it should be in RH 7.3- both X 4.2.0 and X 3.3.6 have been installed, switching from the one to the other only implies changing /etc/X11/X from a symlink to the one to a symlink to the other, nothing should be reinstalled, uninstalled or whatever... When you switch /etc/X11/X from X 4.2.0 to X 3.3.6 then automatically X will use XF86Config instead of XF86Config-4 I am afraid by reinstalling X 4.2 you ran into the well known glide problem, just look in the archives it has surfaced rather often and the solution has been mentioned as many times. Having had the luck of escaping it I cannot help you there. X 3.3.6 is not obsolete for those cards which are not supported by X 4.x.x and even recommended for some of the *not so old* cards which don't have acceleration in X 4.x.x but have it in 3.3.6! newer versions of kde (at least 2.2) and gnome run on 3.3.6 without problems. Note I don't know whether that could help but in 3.3.6 the *universal* server is XF86_SVGA and is accelerated in 4.x.x the *universal* driver (note the difference: not "server") is vesa and is regretably not accelerated. Possibly trying one of these may work Lionel --- "David E. Fitzgerald" <fitz@genuity.net> wrote: > OK, now I'm confused. > > You say that I should copy my current /etc/X11/X to make a backup, and then > recreate X as a symbolic link which points to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. > > OK, fine, I understand the mechanics for doing that. > > The problem is that the /etc/X11/X symbolic link already points to that > location. It comes that way with RedHat 7.3. > > You say to go back to 3.3.6, so I'm guessing that you mean me to download > the files , and install it from scratch. Which I am now attempting to do. > > Incidently, I attempted to install 4.2 from scratch, and was met with the > error that Glide was not installed. (specific issue was with libglide2x.so > not being found.) > > Running the preinst.sh for 3.3.6 tells me that I need to update my ld.so to > 1.7.14. As I'm currently running GNU ld version 2.11.93.0.2 20020207, I'm > not feeling real good about this. I'll screw up the entire system just to > get an obsolete version of X running. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On > Behalf Of Lionel Lecoq > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:37 AM > To: newbie@XFree86.Org > Subject: RE: Configuring X > > > I had a look in the archives possibly Alan Hourihane could help if he is > following the list these > days... > I would definitely go back to 3.3.6 (just backup /etc/X11/X and recreate X > as a symlink to > /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA) > then XF86Config will be used > there you have to watch out (see > http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/maddin_xcirrus.html) > good luck > Lionel > > > --- "David E. Fitzgerald" <fitz@genuity.net> wrote: > > RedHat 7.3 does support both versions, and the Xconfigurator has > > a --preferx3 | --preferx4 switch. Both files XF86Config and XF86Config-4 > > automatically get built in /etc/X11. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
