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Screenless
03-13-2003, 09:20 PM
I bought a Gateway 300s awhile back and decided to try linux. I decided to by redhat 8.0 I've never used linux before so im not sure if the install went well or not. It showed an istal screen and copied files an asked me about some type of free stuff. I clicked ok every time and my computer rebooted but everything looks ugly. The resolution is waaay low and the mouse leaves a trail everywhere it goes. Anybody have any ideas? :mad:
gg4
03-13-2003, 10:21 PM
You probably have an older version of XFree. Update your version.
mdwatts
03-14-2003, 08:52 AM
The Intel 845G is now supported in the recently released X4.3.


4.3.0:

Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the "i740" driver, and support for the Intel integrated graphics chipsets i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM and 865G is provided by the "i810" driver. The i810 and i815 chipsets require kernel-level AGP GART support (available on Linux, FreeBSD, and some other BSDs). The 830M and later can be used without AGP GART support, but it is required for full functionality.


You will either need to upgrade to X4.3 ( www.xfree86.org ) or use the fb (framebuffer) drivers.
Screenless
03-14-2003, 06:16 PM
ok thanks. Now to start the installation (which is very scary for me)
Screenless
03-14-2003, 09:04 PM
Originally posted by Screenless
ok thanks. Now to start the installation (which is very scary for me)

Ok I have successfully installed the new xfree86. Now can someone help me get back to gnome? (see my post in the window manager forum)
bwkaz
03-15-2003, 12:09 AM
You saved your old /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, right?

No?

Oops... (note: I know, I know, no one told you you should have, but then again, the X installation probably asked you if you wanted to overwrite it too)

You might be able to do something like echo "exec gnome-session" >~/xinitrc to get it back, maybe. It probably won't look exactly the same, though, because most distros' default xinitrc file does a lot of preprocessing.

Not sure what else to tell you... Maybe you could extract the xinitrc script from one of your distro's packages, with something like rpm2cpio and then using cpio on the resulting cpio archive?