[ltp] Problem updating to Mandrake 7.2
Darrell Shively
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:16:57 -0800
"M. Leo Cooper" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Shane Heiney wrote:
>
> > I'm currently running RH 7.0 on a TP 760EL with XFree86 4.0. When I first
> > installed it I had a similar problem as you. After scouring several times over my
> > XF86Config file I finally noticed that the file was missing a 'EndSection' keyword
> > in (if I remember correctly) the monitor section of the file. After I fixed it
> > XFree86 started right up without a hitch. It seems that the config script that
> > runs during the install and detects the display had failed to write that
> > particular line to XF86Config.
>
> This seems not to be the problem with my machine. I had a working XF86Config
> file that I tried to reuse. It didn't work with XFree86 4.0, but still works
> fine with 3.3.
I hope this isn't insultingly obvious, but a co-worker mentioned to me
that XFree4.x uses a different config file from XF86Config. Something
like XF86Config-4?
Cheers,
- dash
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