Re: video card configuration

["Paul Jursinic, Ph.D." <jursinic@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:38 PM 8/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
>More important than your version of Redhat is your version of X.  You
should be
>able to download a more recent version of XFree from redhat (or one of the
>mirrors).
>
>"Paul Jursinic, Ph.D." wrote:
>> 
>> I am attempting to set up an X window system on a computer at work.  The
>> video card is a Diamond StealthIII S540.  The specificatin sheet indicates
>> a S3 Savaged4 Pro+ controller.  I am unable to find a video card under
>> Xconfigurator that matches this description.  I have tried a number of the
>> Diamond Stealth configurations that are in the Xconfigurator list but none
>> seem to work.  I am running Red Hat version 6.0 of Linux on this computer.
>> Suggestions on what video configuration to try would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.   Paul Jursinic
>
>--
>Wesley Leonard
>
>marshall@pacdemon.org
>http://www.pacdemon.org
>"...I want Linux to be on the cutting edge, and even a bit past the edge,
>because what's past the edge today is what's on your desktop tomorrow."
>	--Linus Torvalds
>
>

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.