Re: video card configuration

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The version of X that I have runing is: XFree86-3.3.3.1-49.  I looked at
> the RedHat web site  and followed a link that gave a more recent version:
> XFree86-S3.3.3.6-20.
> 
> I copied this as an .rpm file and tried to load it using the following
> command:
> rpm -Uvh XFree86-S3.3.3.6-20.i386.rpm.  This seemed to work since I saw a
> line of ####### followed by my system prompt.  I rebooted and tried running
> Xconfigurator but nothing seemed to have changed.
> 
> Next I ran the following command: rpm -qa | less.  I looked at the list of
> installed packages and found both XFree86-3.3.3.1-49 and
> XFree86-S3.3.3.6-20 in the list.  This was a surprise since I thought the
> command rpm -Uvh XFree86-S3.3.3.6-20.i386.rpm would update
> XFree86-3.3.3.1-49 with XFree86-S3.3.3.6-20.
> 
> I need a little help understanding what is happening.

You need to update ALL of the XFree86 packages to version 3.3.6-20.
You only updated the X server component.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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