[juneau-lug] Re: Red Hat 7.1 Upgrade

  • From: James Zuelow <jfzuelow@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:44:39 -0800 (AKDT)

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:03:56 -0800 Zachary Family <dzachary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> I ran the upgrade/install from Red Hat 6.1 to 7.1 this afternoon.
> 
> Tried the graphic mode first, but it did not fit on the screen.
> Switched to text mode -- took a few tries. Had to turn the power off and
> back on before it would work.
> 
RH 7.1 uses XFree86 4 (4.0.3?) by default.  Many older video cards are
not supported with XF86 4, and if that is the case you should use the
older XF86 3.3.6 also included on the RH 7.1 install cd set.

> Got through to the finish.
> 
> Now when I boot,  when Linux puts up the graphic logon screen I get what
> looks like a combination of Gnome and KDE.  They mess each other up and you
> really can't read either one on the screen.
> 
I'll bet it's an XF86 4 problem.  What video card are you running?


> Dan



--
Cheers,

James


------------------------------------
This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the 
word unsubscribe in the subject header.

Other related posts:

  1. Home
  2. juneau-lug
  3. Archive
  4. 07-2001