[juneau-lug] Re: Making a Slackware 9.0 boot disk

  • From: "Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:01:28 -0800

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>James,
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I found that Xfree 3.3.6 was installed. All I had to do was change the 
link for X to point to the 3.3.6 xserver. During the install, I was able 
to test the x setup and it worked fine. The RedHat installer just failed 
to set the link to the proper server. Thanks for the help.

>Look in /etc/X11R6/bin and see if there is more than one version of
>xf86Config.  For example, sometimes you'll find xf86config and
>xf86config-v3.  The -v3 version will set up the old version of X
>(3.36?), which IIRC came with RedHat 7.0.  Some older hardware is not
>supported with version 4.x.  (The plus to that is because not all
>hardware works with version 4, most distributions ship both 3.x and
>4.x)
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>Cheers,
>
>James
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