Re: Xfree86 4.0.2 -Very Low resolution -how to increase?
On 19 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote:
>
> YOU're actually RUNning the OLD 3.3.6 server.
> > My driver is xserver-svga 3.3.6X
>
> (man dpkg ;-)
> dpkg -l x\*
>
> shows each package installed on your machine whose name starts with x.
> (the \ before * is an 'escape character' for the shell; says 'don't use
> this char with a special meaning you have for it, pass it unchanged'.;
> here dpkg shall have arguments -l and x*. info bash or man bash).
>
> If this gives so much output, that you cannot see the first lines, use
>
> dpkg -l x\* | grep server
>
> This passes all output, that dpkg produces through a pipe (told the
> shell with | symbol) to grep, which outputs only lines of input that
> have 'server' in them.
>
> You will propably see one:
>
> XF86-xxx 3.3.6
>
> You need:
>
> xserver-xfree86 4.0.x
>
[snip]
Thanks, but I'm familiar with the above; what I couldn't do was to
persuade the new server to run. However, as I indicated in a post
yesterday, thanks to another poster on this list I discovered the
problem. As so often happens, it was quite simple; I just needed to make
/etc/X11/X point to /usr/bin/X11/XFree86. As soon as I did this it ran
4.0.2 perfectly.
Anthony
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