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Re: Linux-Athena 9.2 display strangeness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu May 8 17:17:20 2003
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:14:21 -0400
Message-Id: <200305082114.RAA09803@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
CC: alexp@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <1052425641.1552.398.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (message from
Greg Hudson on 08 May 2003 16:27:22 -0400)
>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
I don't think that will ever have happened by default, and that would be
really useful, because the XFree86 3 servers are gone from the Redhat 9.0
and Athena 9.2 releases.
>I'm not sure why you concluded that "most X settings are back in
>XF86Config"...
Possibly simply because the V3 config files are huge in comparison.
>...astrophel appears to be running XFree86 4, which uses XF86Config-4.
Note that, since the version 3 servers have been deprecated, the "official"
V4 config file is once again XF86Config, but if there's an XF86Config-4
file present, it will get used by default.
Presumably, native 9.2 installs will only get an XF86Config file in
version 4 format. It seems reasonable to leave preexisting installs
so long as they're working.
