Re: video card configuration

["Tim R. Geier" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:22:27PM -0500, Paul Jursinic, Ph.D. wrote:
<snip>
> 
> 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.

okay, looks to me like red hat is treating these X server packages as two
different series rather than an upgrade (probably as the S3 one is a server
optimised for S3 chipsets and the other, I presume, is the fairly generic "SVGA"
server.  iirc you're running a card with a S3 chipset, so my suggestion is to
remove the generic server, as its presence might be confusing Xconfigurator
(it's been a while since I've set up X on red hat, I don't remember exactly if
it minds or not if one has more than one X server package installed)

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Tim R. Geier
Modineer IT
email: tim@modineer.com