[5350] in testers
Re: Linux-Athena 9.2 display strangeness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 8 16:27:25 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200305081933.h48JXejh001576@astrophel.mit.edu>
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Date: 08 May 2003 16:27:22 -0400
On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 15:33, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> PS- it looks like most X settings are back in XF86Config; in prior RedHat
> releases, most were in XF86Config-4. Did they change this in RedHat 9?
We take a very hands-off approach to X configuration, more by necessity
than by choice. At install time, we run Xconfigurator (with the
--kickstart option if the user hasn't chose to do a manual X
configuration), and then we only touch the X configuration in small
ways, and pretty much only on PUBLIC=true machines. We do this because
the proper X configuration is different on every machine, because the
configuration file is not easily machine-editable, and because automatic
changes are as likely to break a machine's X configuration as make it
better.
The upshot is that a machine may be runinng an XFree86 3 server
(configured through XF86Config) if it was installed at an old version of
Athena, or it may be running an XFree86 4 server (configured through
XF86Config-4) if it was installed more recently or if X was reconfigured
since it was installed.
I'm not sure why you concluded that "most X settings are back in
XF86Config"; astrophel appears to be running XFree86 4, which uses
XF86Config-4.
I'm also not sure why you're running into the problem you are. But your
best course of action is probably to do a console login as root and run
"redhat-config-xfree86" (which appears to have displaced Xconfigurator
in Red Hat 9).
