Re: X4 vs X3.3.6 on Upgrade

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:07:03AM -0500, Wayne Dyer wrote:
> > Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > >
> > > I just upgraded from 6.2 from 7.0, I notice I have both XFree 4.01
> > > and 3.3.6-33 installed, and the upgrade left me with 3.3.6 as
> > > default. Is there some easy way to switch back and forth without
> > > munging a bunch of stuff?
> > >
> > > All in all, a painless upgrade so far. A few curios, but nothing
> > > major.
> >
> > My "very safe" method is to edit /etc/inittab to start in runlevel
> > 3, then reboot.  If you currently live in runlevel 3, don't bother,
> > just get out of X.
> >
> > Then, as root, run Xconfigurator.  If you want runlevel 5, let it
> > set it for you and reboot.  If you don't, just startx.
> >
> > This is (basically) what I did.
> >
> > As for switching back and forth, I have no idea.
> 
> Thanks. Actually I just got through doing this, pretty much as you
> outline. X4 is running fine. One problemo though: I can't get out of
> 8bpp. It was 16bpp beforehand. I've changed about everything I can
> think of in XF86Config to no avail. Trying to sort out gdm now, as to
> where this option (and -dpi 100) can get passed to the X server. xdm
> does it in Xservers, and it looks like maybe gdm calls this same file.
> But it is still a no go. Any ideas on this? 8bpp pretty much sucks.
> 
> --
> Hal B
>  hal@foobox.net
>  hal@burgiss.net
>  hburgiss@bellsouth.net

If you are running XFree86-4.0 you need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Chris Kloiber
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