Re: Which X is running?
ls -al /etc/X11/X
If this returns /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (or /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 which
is a symlink) then it is 4.01, otherwise 3.3.6.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:15:02AM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my system. Sadly, this completely
> broke X. To fix things, I manually installed task-x-window-system-core
> since apt-get was holding it back. I configured the system during the
> set up script and X still wouldn't start claiming that the
> configuration files were wrong. I ran XF86Setup and reconfigured X,
> and though it could successfully start the X server, startx would
> still fail claiming that the configuration script was wrong. I then
> installed xserver-svga and now X starts fine. However, I'm curious if
> I'm running X 4 or 3.x.
>
> dpkg claims:
> ii xserver-common 4.0.1-10 files and utilities common to all X servers
> ii xserver-common 3.3.6-18 files and utilities common to XFree86 3.x X
> ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-18 X server for SVGA graphics cards
> ii xserver-vga16 3.3.6-11 X server for VGA graphics cards
> ii xserver-xfree8 4.0.1-10 the XFree86 X server
>
> But I know for a fact that an unpatched XF86_SVGA for 3.3.6 doesn't
> work correctly with my video card (s3 savage 4) so I don't think it's
> using 3.3.6, but 4 seemed to fail until I installed xserver-svga
> 3.3.6-18. How can I tell what's running?
>
>
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