Suse says kernal 2.2.16, XFree86 4.0.2 says kernal 2.0.30
I'm having continued problems trying to configure XFree86 4.0.2 to work with my ATI Radeon Graphics card. When I boot up, the Suse linux 7.0 login prompt greets me with: Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386) - Kernal 2.2.16 (tty1) Also, when I do command: uname -r The result is: 2.2.16 Yet, when I do "startx" to start up Xwindow system, the error output log says the following: ____________________________________________ XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 Operating System: Linux 2.0.30 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 21 14:01:41 2001 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" Parse error on line 12 of section (null) in file /etc/X11/XF86Config "" is not a valid keyword in this section. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found ______________________________________________ Notice that the 4th line says the operating system is Linux 2.0.30 I installed XFree86 from .tgz files downloaded from XFree86.org, out of the libc5 directory. The only guess I have is that maybe I was supposed to d/l the files from the glibc2.2 or glibc2.3 directory, and not the files in the libc5 directory. But this is just a shot in the dark. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike Flug michael.flug@snet.net
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:56:5 -0500
mhf
I'm having continued problems trying to configure XFree86 4.0.2 to work with my ATI Radeon Graphics card. When I boot up, the Suse linux 7.0 login prompt greets me with: Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386) - Kernal 2.2.16 (tty1)
Also, when I do command: uname -r The result is: 2.2.16
Yet, when I do "startx" to start up Xwindow system, the error output log says the following:
____________________________________________ XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 Operating System: Linux 2.0.30 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 21 14:01:41 2001 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" Parse error on line 12 of section (null) in file /etc/X11/XF86Config "" is not a valid keyword in this section. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
Fatal server error: no screens found ______________________________________________
Notice that the 4th line says the operating system is Linux 2.0.30
My guess is that this line refers to the operating system of the machine used to build the XFree binaries instead of the current one. It says "Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE" for me and I use the RPMs from SuSE ftp site.
I installed XFree86 from .tgz files downloaded from XFree86.org, out of the libc5 directory. The only guess I have is that maybe I was supposed to d/l the files from the glibc2.2 or glibc2.3 directory, and not the files in the libc5 directory. But this is just a shot in the dark.
Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.
You have the SuSE Linux 7.0 so use the package built for glibc2.3.
Regards...
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Jean-François Bocquet
On 21-Jan-01 mhf wrote:
I'm having continued problems trying to configure XFree86 4.0.2 to work with my ATI Radeon Graphics card.
There are upgrade rpms for 4.0.2 on the SuSE site at http://www.suse.de/en/support/xsuse/index.html I've used this with no problems (even running a dual headed machine OK).
I installed XFree86 from .tgz files downloaded from XFree86.org, out of the libc5 directory. The only guess I have is that maybe I was supposed to d/l the files from the glibc2.2 or glibc2.3 directory, and not the files in the libc5 directory. But this is just a shot in the dark.
Go for the SuSE supplied rpms, this takes the guess work out of it for you :-)
Peter.
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