Upgrading XFree86 to ver. 4.03 with RED HAT 6.1

froycard · 05-10-2001, 07:50 PM

Recently, I tried to upgrade XFree86 from ver. 3.3.5 to ver. 4.03, but it hasn´t worked since when I run config utility, it didn´t start and crashed instead. It showed some error messages such as, no fonts or graph available... I have downloaded all the files required to perform the upgrade according to the readme files at http://www.xfree86.org.

In brief, I haven´t yet been able to set the new XFree86 up, since the utilities to set it up crash.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks

webtoe · 05-12-2001, 01:20 PM

you used the xinstall.sh file to install it?

froycard · 05-12-2001, 01:47 PM

Oh, yeah, I run it and the installation went well... and I followed the installation procedures and when I tried to set it up by running:

XFree86 -configure

... the utility seems to hang since there is only a grey screen, after 2 o 3 min. it sends me back to the linux prompt and that´s it.

If I try to run GNOME (startx), it just crashes...

If you need more inputs, I can re-install the whole stuffs again...

Thanks !