9/16 Where the hell is XF86Setup for Fedora Core 3?
\_ xorg.conf . Red Hat switched from XFree86.
\_ Eh? I'm using Fedora Core 3 and I have a fully functional
/etc/XF86Config. It is the setup program that I'm looking for.
\_ xf86cfg. Man, XF86Setup was outmoded about 4 years ago.
Where have you been living, under a rock?
\_ file not found in my Fedora Core 3. FYI FC3!=RH.
\_ Okay, you're telling us two things which are
mutually exclusive.
If you are using FC3, there should NOT be an
XF86Config at all because FC3 uses xorg. You didn't
tell us if you did something weird like dump your
old XF86Config file from your old setup, but
XF86Setup hasn't been around for years. It's been
upgraded to xf86cfg or sometimes the CLI version
(which is essentially a shell script) is called
xf86config. If you can't find that then run
X --config manually. Anyway, you shouldn't have
this because FC3 is xorg only. If you can't
find xf86cfg then you either didn't install
XF86 correctly you (more likely) you're running
xorg. If that's the case then you need to use
xorgconfig. If you have neither config programs
then your path is screwed up somehow, you didn't
install X correctly in the distro, you somehow
deleted it, or you installed it somewhere
weird. Also, FYI, it's not recommended that you
upgrade an RH box to FC3.
\_ Yes and no. RedHat still provides a lot of input to the
Fedora project. My FC3 install at work uses the xorg
implementation, not XFree86. If you upgraded to FC3,
particularly from RH9 or something of similar vintage,
you may still have XFree86; I was in this situation for
a while, but I upgraded because of the dependency mess it
created. I think xorg will fall back to using XF86Config
if it can't find xorg.conf.
For configuring xorg, I've always used the -configure
option to Xorg to get it to run its detections stuff and
dump a config file, then manually tweaked the config, but
there are config tools. I seem to have something called
pyxf86config partly installed; this claims to be a Python
frontend to Xorg's configuration library. You might give
that a try if xorg.conf/XF86Config is too deep for you.
Good luck. -gm |
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