RE: Essential X RPMs?

["Abe L. Getchell" <abegetchell home com>]

Hi all!

I knew I should have planned to _not_ accomplish anything over the
holidays. =)  Anywho, I have everything installed that X requires to
run, but issuing the 'startx' command produces output with a lot of 'not
a recognized section name' errors.  My guess, since this is XFree86
4.1.0-3, and there's no version 4.x XFree86 config file in '/etc/X11',
it's barfing on old config syntax?  Anyone know which package installs
the 'XF86Config-4' sample config file?  Am I way off track here?  Sorry
guys, not an X expert, command line is my friend. =)

Thanks,
Abe

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Abe L. Getchell
Security Engineer
abegetchell home com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: enigma-list-admin redhat com 
> [mailto:enigma-list-admin redhat com] On Behalf Of Bill Crawford
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:19 PM
> To: enigma-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Essential X RPMs?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Abe L. Getchell wrote:
> 
> > Greetings all!
> >
> > I'm setting up a Red Hat 7.2 box which I need to have X running on 
> > simply to be able to open multiple terminal windows at 
> once.  I know 
> > there are other ways of doing this, but unfortunately, this is a 
> > specific requirement.  What are the RPMs that are _essential_ for 
> > having X functional in the manner noted above?
> 
>  You'll need XFree86 and XFree86-libs, for starters.  
> Basically try  to install those with "rpm -Uvh", and then add 
> anything else that's  needed to the command line one at a 
> time until it works :o)
> 
>  As far as I can tell you should be able to get away with having:
> 
> 	pam
> 	ncurses
> 	freetype
> 	utempter
> 	chkfontpath
> 	XFree86
> 	XFree86-libs
> 	Mesa
> 
>  plus whatever they depend on, of course ... at least the 
> first two of those will almost certainly be there already.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Abe
> >
> > --
> > Abe L. Getchell
> > Security Engineer
> > abegetchell home com
> 
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