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
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
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