Re: Upgrading from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.1.0

[Adam Becker <arbecker gmx net>]

I checked the 7.2 i386 errata at
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2002-010.html which had

XFree86-compat-libs-4.0.3-2.i386.rpm
xinitrc-3.20-1.noarch.rpm
Mesa-3.4.2-10.i386.rpm 
Mesa-demos-3.4.2-10.i386.rpm  
Mesa-devel-3.4.2-10.i386.rpm 
and then a bunch of "Outdated by RHBA-2002:068" entries
oh, and Xconfigurator-4.9.39-2.i386.rpm at the end.

There were about 20 of these Outdated entries, and one included
XFree86-4.1.0-15.i386.rpm

Are these the packages you were talking about? If they are, should I try
installing them anyway, even if they're outdated?

Adam B.
 

>There's more RPMs that have to be installed.  My suggestion is that
>you download all of the X-related RPMs from the RedHat update site
>(or the mirror at kernel.org, which is MUCH faster) and do
>
>	rpm -Uvh XFree86*
>
>Or
>
>	rpm -Fvh XFree86*
>
>That should update the lot.  There's a total of about 20 RPMs
>associated with the new XFree86 4.1 implementation.

>Adam Becker wrote:
>> I just installed RedHat 7.2 on my laptop and the installation CD only came
>> with XFree86 3.3.6. Xwindows wasn't working properly, and I found that
>> 3.3.6 didn't support my SiS 630 graphics card. 4.1.0 does. So I downloaded
>> the 4.1.0 rpm from redhat.com and as root (in the root directory) typed
>> 'rpm -Uv XFree86-4.1.0.i386.rpm' which seemed to work fine. However, X
>> still didn't work so I typed 'X -probeonly >& X.txt' which showed I was
>> still trying to run 3.3.6. What's the problem? Also, does it matter which
>> directory I install from?
>> 
>> How do I completely upgrade from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0?