On Thursday 04 March 2004 16:15, you wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Well that explains why the XF86Config-4 was skipped.
>
> > 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.
>
> You mentioned earlier about copying files from another box.
>
> I suggest that remove all the X11R6 XFree86 files. And reinstall
> XFree86.
>
I can't do that right now, as I lent out my Mandrake CD's! :=( But really,
all I copied over were some driver files. I'm pretty sure X isn't using
them; I think these are for version 4. I've been running strace and it shows
all the library loads, and the fact that version 3.3.6 starts up. Somewhere
(library path, etc.) it must be pointing to the wrong place, I think.
Vaughn
> I don't think you have two complete XFree86 installs, but a mix and match
> which is broken.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
> http://www.reedmedia.net/
>
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