On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:49:22PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I'm confused by the support of both version 3.3 and 4.0 X server in > Woody. > > I have an operational system running under (I believe) version 3.3. > > I would like to try to configure version 4.0. > > How do I specify one X server or the other? Is /etc/X11/X, as a symbolic > link, the say to do this? > > Right now I have X -> /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA. > > What does it need to be to run the version 4.0 X? 3.3 servers are mainly there to support old hardware that is not supported under 4.x 3.3 uses /etc/XF86Config, and 4.x uses /etc/XF86Config-4 It doesn't matter that you have both these config files. Which X you end up using depends on the symlink /etc/X11/X -> xserver. To use 4.x, install xserver-xfree86 and run: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (You can always reset to use 3.3 by changing the symlink back to X -> /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA.) If you don't get a working config file with dpkg-reconfigure, try "XFree86 -configure" to let X figure out what XF86Config-4 should be (see man XFree86). (Look for error messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log.) If you are using [xgk]dm, you may need to stop and restart service. -- Jerome
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