Re: X configuration question

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.

Vaughn

>

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

>
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