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Re: xf86config problem



Shawn Lamson wrote:

> On Tue, July 15 at  4:46 PM EDT
> "Jennifer" <jennifer@tevn.com> wrote:
> 
>> I found there is a file called" XF86Config-4", rather than "
>> XF86Config". In this case, what should I do?
>>
>> Your any advice always be highly appreciated.
 
> XF86Config-4 was named that way for people who wanted to preserve their
> XF86Config v.3 config files when upgrading so they could run either one.
>  You can safely copy XF86Config-4 to XF86Config and rerun your setup.

After saving the configuration to XF86Config, you either have to delete
XF86Config-4 or copy XF86Config to XF86Config-4, because XFree 4 will use
the -4 file if it is there and in that case ignore the other one.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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