Re: XFree86 3.3.5 and slink
Quoting Rick Venable (rvenable@deimos.cber.nih.gov):
> Because of a newer graphics card, after installing Debian 2.1 (slink)
> from CDs I had to update my X11 software to XFree86 3.3.5. While most
> things seem to work fine, xdm login startup seems to ignore the list in
> window-managers, and keeps starting (ugh) twm instead of my indicated
> default. The Xsession file /etc/X11 wasn't changed by the X11 update.
When I've run an updated X11 server becuase of new hardware, laptop etc.,
I've only done three things: placed the new server binary in
/usr/X11R6/bin, put its name at the top of /etc/X11/Xserver and tweaked
/etc/X11/XF86Config to suit.
Is it necessary to do more than that?
Cheers,
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