Subject: Re: Upgrade to XFree86 4 works but 3.3.6 still comes up?
From: Sam Moore (samiwas@macconnect.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 16:59:20 MDT
Check the alias at /etc/X11/X - is it pointing at the new XFree86
binary? Or at XF68_FBDev? I had some trouble with this too...
From
http://ftp.linuxppc.org/users/kfukui/XF4_stable_XF40991-0f/HOW-TO-Upgrading-XF3.x-to-XF4.x
comes the following:
>1. Versions 3.x and 4.x of XFree86 differ in the link to the server
>binary executable file; this link may or may not be updated properly.
>Check that the following link is in place:
>
> 3.x only: /etc/X11/X->/usr/X11R6/bin/XF68_FBDev
> 4.x only: /etc/X11/X->/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
At 1:07 PM -0400 6/7/01, William K. Gibson wrote:
>This is an odd one that has me tearing my hair out. I went to LinuxPPC org
>and got the latest XFree86 4.0 rpms.
>
>I went ahead and upgraded my XFree86 3.3.6 using KPackage. Well, it all
>seemed to install just fine (I did have to force a couple of circular
>dependencies) but when I called startx, it came up with version 3.3.6 again!
>At least that's what the screen says. And it still works off my old
>XF86Config file.
>
>What the heck? No amount of messing around seems to work. I look at the rpm
>database with Kpackage and it says all the packages are 4.0.99 (as does 'rpm
>-q XFree86').
>
>Am I crazy? Did I forget a step. I mean, I expected it to be broken, but I
>didn't expect it to not change at all.
>
>
>--William K. Gibson
>1stDesk Systems
>firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
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