Desperate: How to switch to X11 4.0.2?
Hi, I am really desperate at this point. I need to use X11 4.0.2 since my new laptop has the Ati Rage Mobility 128. I downloaded the 4.0.2 RPMs from SuSE's ftp site and installed them according to the instructions. SAX2 does not work (I tried) so I configured X11 with xf86config. The problem is that when I run startx, X11 3.3.6 starts instead of 4.0.2 (in 16 color 640x480, oh my, Win2K looks so much better with 1600x1200 8( What do I have to do to start 4.0.2 instead of 3.3.6? BTW, is there anyone with an IBM Thinkpad A with the ATI Rage 128 Mobility that got it working properly? Thanks, Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life avi@CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux
Make sure /usr/X11/bin/xf86config is a symlink to /usr/X11/bin/xf86config4, or run xf86config4 directly. Hope this helps -- On Friday 12 January 2001 16:28, Avi Schwartz wrote:
Hi,
I am really desperate at this point. I need to use X11 4.0.2 since my new laptop has the Ati Rage Mobility 128. I downloaded the 4.0.2 RPMs from SuSE's ftp site and installed them according to the instructions. SAX2 does not work (I tried) so I configured X11 with xf86config. The problem is that when I run startx, X11 3.3.6 starts instead of 4.0.2 (in 16 color 640x480, oh my, Win2K looks so much better with 1600x1200 8(
What do I have to do to start 4.0.2 instead of 3.3.6?
BTW, is there anyone with an IBM Thinkpad A with the ATI Rage 128 Mobility that got it working properly?
Thanks, Avi
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Avi Schwartz wrote:
I am really desperate at this point. I need to use X11 4.0.2 since my new laptop has the Ati Rage Mobility 128. I downloaded the 4.0.2 RPMs from SuSE's ftp site and installed them according to the instructions. SAX2 does not work (I tried) so I configured X11 with xf86config. The problem is that when I run startx, X11 3.3.6 starts instead of 4.0.2 (in 16 color 640x480, oh my, Win2K looks so much better with 1600x1200 8(
What do I have to do to start 4.0.2 instead of 3.3.6?
BTW, is there anyone with an IBM Thinkpad A with the ATI Rage 128 Mobility that got it working properly?
I had a problem setting up the XFree4 that was on the SuSE CDs on a friend's box. I can't help with configuring for you specific graphics chip (although I do think it's well supported) but a lot of my problems stemmed from how to start X up. I *think* in the end we found that in XFree4, the equivalent of xinit was a program called XFree86. We changed this in the startx script and we got XFree4 when we typed startx. I could be way off here, but it's a start... Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
To everyone that answered my plea of help thank you! After many trials and problems I got X11 4.0.2 on my laptop and it looks great! But it was not easy. The only way I managed to get it going was: 1. Download and install 4.0.1 from SuSE and install it (maybe the only thing I needed was the newer version of SAX2, I don't know). 2. Download and install 4.0.2. 3. Run sax2 in automatic mode (it would lock the machine otherwise) and let it generate a XF86Config. 4. Fix the problems in the XF86COnfig file (Comment out the UseModes line in the Monitor section. Comment out the Modes section, set the mouse protocol to PS/2 -- SAX2 set it to 'O'!?!). -- Avi --On Friday, January 12, 2001 09:36:11 AM +0000 Chris Reeves <chris.reeves@iname.com> wrote:
Avi Schwartz wrote:
I am really desperate at this point. I need to use X11 4.0.2 since my new laptop has the Ati Rage Mobility 128. I downloaded the 4.0.2 RPMs from SuSE's ftp site and installed them according to the instructions. SAX2 does not work (I tried) so I configured X11 with xf86config. The problem is that when I run startx, X11 3.3.6 starts instead of 4.0.2 (in 16 color 640x480, oh my, Win2K looks so much better with 1600x1200 8(
What do I have to do to start 4.0.2 instead of 3.3.6?
BTW, is there anyone with an IBM Thinkpad A with the ATI Rage 128 Mobility that got it working properly?
I had a problem setting up the XFree4 that was on the SuSE CDs on a friend's box. I can't help with configuring for you specific graphics chip (although I do think it's well supported) but a lot of my problems stemmed from how to start X up. I *think* in the end we found that in XFree4, the equivalent of xinit was a program called XFree86. We changed this in the startx script and we got XFree4 when we typed startx.
I could be way off here, but it's a start... Chris
-- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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