Re: Xfree86 RPM

[Gregory McLean <gregm comstar net>]

In message <38D15545.C2420BAC@denali.atlnet.com>, Wandered Inn writes:
>Z Leite wrote:
>> 
>> I tried the Mandrake ones from cooker/contrib. Bad, reeeelyyyy bad
>> experiment...
>> I will try again at 4.0.1, when/if RedHat makes them. XF86 4 sounds 
great in
>> paper, but I got that feeling that it was released a bit too early...
>
>Would you care to expand?  I know that, based on the documents on the
>xfree site, you have to create a completely new configuration file.  Did
>you do this?  Was it that different?
>
IF you have a supported card, XFree86 -configure  should get you up and 
running with a basic config. I personally built it with a different 
project root and did some symlink magic to not kill the existing, working, 
install. But I do have to agree I think it was sorta pushed out.

>> 
>> Z
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: michaelv@mail.redhat.com [mailto:michaelv@mail.redhat.com]On
>> > Behalf Of michael
>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:23 PM
>> > To: gnome-list@gnome.org
>> > Subject: Xfree86 RPM
>> >
>> >
>> > Off the subject but  does any one know when the rpms for xfree86 4.0
>> > will
>> > be available .
>> >
>> >
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>I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
>Y2K...
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