Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
>
>>My guess is that the newer version of XFree86 is failing and it's falling
>>back on version 3.3.6, which as I said before doesn't recognize the radeon
>>card and configures it as a crappy generic VGA.
>
>
> I don't see how it could fall back to old 3.3.6 version. Normally, you
> can't have both X servers installed at same time in same location -- they
> conflict with each other. If you have both, then you probably have
> problems.
>
> If you have both, I'd suggest you move all your X out of the way and
> reinstall it.
>
> What does "XFree86 -configure" tell you?
True to a degree. RH back in the 7.x days actually shipped with XFree86 4 and
3.3.6. The server itself was most likely 4.x, but had some stuff that made it
backwards compatible to XFree86 3.3.6
Take a look at the list of XFree86 rpms that came with 7.2:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
it is a mixture of 4.1.0 and 3.3.6
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