On Thursday 04 March 2004 12:14, you wrote:
> On Thursday 04 March 2004 12:43, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > Something funny happened to the Mandrake 8 setup.  The X configuration
> > > files got messed up in a major way.  They both got updated by Drake and
> > > my old copies were zeroed out.  The system no longer does any better
> > > than 640x480. My video card (ATI Radeon) is no longer specified in the
> > > file. I tried using HardDrake to select it, but the program hangs after
> > > I click on the Radeon entry.  Another odd thing - I'm not sure where
> > > the video driver modules have gone.  I have another system, also
> > > running Mandrake 8, which has them under /usr/X11R6/modules/drivers,
> > > but this tree was totally missing on the afflicted system.  I copied it
> > > over to the messed-up system, but that didn't fix the HardDrake hang
> > > behavior.
> >
> > Maybe try "XFree86 -configure".
> >
> > > Another thing puzzles me:  the hosed-up system has both the XF86Config
> > > and XF86Config-4 files in the /etc/X11 directory.  It's my
> > > understanding that X should be using the "-4" file and only using the
> > > old one if the first one isn't present.  I tried copying the
> > > XF86Config-4 file from the Mandrake 9.1
> >
> > Look at XF86Config(5) man page. It shows which configs are used first.
> > (Strace may show you too.)
> >
> > > partition (when booting that, the video worked fine- and being on the
> > > same machine, the hardware's the same, so shouldn't this work?) but it
> > > changed nothing.
> >
> > Maybe different XFree86 version?
>
> More info:  I saved the stderr output of startx to a file.  The XFree86
> version on the hosed machine is 3.3.6.   The XFree86 version on the working
> machine is 4.01.  Funny, I don't remember updating X, and I installed both
> machines from the same CD set.  Is it possible for two versions of X to be
> present on the same machine, and one to load earlier if the path gets
> changed?  Not sure what I'm looking for here.  I supposed I could always
> get the RPM for the newer X.

Another oddity - I did an rpm -q XFree86 and the version it returned was 4.03.
So apparently there are two versions present on the machine!  But I wonder 
what happened to make it decide to use the wrong one?  Does anyone know where 
in the startup this is contained.  I don't see it in the "startx" script.

> Vaughn
>
> >    Jeremy C. Reed
> >    http://www.reedmedia.net/
> >
> >
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