Slackware Xfree86 question.....HELP!!!!!!!!

[Lend273]

This is a long post so please bear with me.
I really need help on this one.
I installed Slackware 7.1 and I got most
problems resolved except my Xfree config.
Slack defaults to the older version 3.3.6 and my video wont function properly even though my card ( ATI all n wonder with Rage 128 chip and 32 meg vid ram ) is on the list.
Some of the fonts are garbled and some text is clear. So I went to the contrib disc and
installed the new Xfree 4.0. Problem is that in 4.0 my card isn't even on the list. It may be an older version of 4.0. So to try and
get around this I downloaded the new XFree86
4.0.1 onto a zip disk using my Libranet Debian install. ( Which has no problems I might add ). So I now have 4.0.1 on a zip disk.
<whew!>
So my question is, how do I get the 4.0.1
file off the zip disk and into my Slackware install? I can only use the command line.
I tried package tool but it wont recognize
my Zip drive.
Please give me a methodical detailed step by step answer to this dilemma if you have one.
Once again, thank you for the help.
I hope someday I may be able to reciprocate.
I am learning alot but still a long way to go. But I still love Linux!!!!
Len

[MovingTarget]

okie as to xf86 i dont use any of its files im useing an acceleratedX system

so i cant help there

ahh but the commandline that i can

if u know where your gona move the file on your zip to to system

simply mount it

mount /dev/hdx (x= letter of your zip drive most common is /dev/hdb4)
so.. mount /dev/hd4 /mnt or make a new dir for you to mount it in like /zip then
mount /dev/hdb4 /zip

u should now have that zip disk readable

cd into the zip disk then into the dir where the file is
then just copy it to where u want it
for an example the file is called blah and the dir to copy to is /bleh
so we are gona copy the zip file to the dir on our hard disk

cp blah /bleh/blah

done

hope that helps http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by MovingTarget (edited 28 December 2000).]

[manux]

or you can mount the partition that you have debian on and run the zip file from there instead.

[BTBGuy]

Are your Slack7.1 and Debian comps 2 separate boxes? What type of zip drive? If it's a parallel port, here's what you'll probably need to do...

Hopefully, when you installed you chose a kernel with some scsi support. If not, I don't think it'll be too big a problem, but it can definitely help!

as root, do the following...

modprobe scsi_mod
modprobe imm

do the modprobe scsi_mod only if you chose something like the bare.i or some such kernel on install. The Iomega zip drives work as a scsi device in linux. Oh yeah, if imm doesn't work, try modprobe ppa. (There are 2 different modules, one's for older drives...)

If you're successful you'll see some sort of message (I hope!!! It's been a while since I've used my zip drive in Linux). If not, don't worry yet.

Is the zip disk a dos-formatted one? if so, the partition on it is sda4. So you'll mount it to whatever mountpoint using:

mount /dev/sda4 -t auto /mnt/zip

then see if you can read the files (you can replace /mnt/zip with whatever directory you want to use)

Hope this'll help!


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[Lend273]

My 2 distros are on the same drive but separate partitions. How do I copy the file from Hdb1 to Hdb4 using the command line?
Also, where can I get a copy of the new
XFree86 4.0.2 in a .tgz format?
My fonts are still screwed up in Slackware
using either 3.3.6 or 4.0.1.
Maybe 4.0.2 will do the trick.
If I can copy my config file from the Debian partition where all works well, to the Slack partition, that may fix the font problem.
Thanks for all the help.
Len