X upgrade / downgrade / upgrade??
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Hi all,
Problem: (work) I have a Compaq Deskpro 5200MMX 200M Pentium machine -
lots of software on the disk, lots of users. The disk was originally
in a Compaq Deskpro P166 - I upgraded hardware and memory to a "new"
machine with new CD-RW etc.
The video card on the Compaq 5200MMX is essentially barely supported
under X. The card is a hacked S3 Virge which advertises itself as
an S3 Virge DX/GX. It has 2M of memory. Under XFree 3.3.6 it would
work with the "old" S3 server. It is not, as far as I know, supported
under XFree 4.0. Card on the P166 was an embedded Cirrus Logic card
(5446) working under XFree 4
There is a known series of bugs with this S3Virge card under X: it
garbles text consoles, is unstable etc. - I did, however, try to
reinstall XFree 3.3.6 to no effect. I attempted to remove 3.36 packages
and removed the card.
Losing patience, I installed a Matrox Millenium 2MB card and the XFree
4 servers. Now, I get an immediate error starting X "can't open socket
- - make sure no other X is running" or words to that effect. I may have
a "mixture" of 3.3.6 and 4.0.9 packages. Help me clear this one up to
restore my X please!
Andy
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