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How to Upgrade Red Hat XFree86 RPMs

Red Hat Inc.

Last Updated: 1999 December 10

This document covers how to upgrade the XFree86 RPMs on Red Hat 4.2 and 5.x systems with the RPMs released on December 17, 1998. Though this document is written with the assumptions of the software versions above, the general idea of how to upgrade XFree86 should be present and helpful for all versions of XFree86 and Red Hat Linux.

1. Introduction

1.1 Preface
1.2 Outline

2. Finding Out What Your Video Card Is

2.1 Short List of X Servers
2.2 Actix Video Cards
2.3 Ark Logic
2.4 ASUS Video Cards
2.5 ATI card
2.6 Avance Logic
2.7 Cardex
2.8 Chips & Technologies
2.9 Cirrus Logic
2.10 Creative Blaster
2.11 Diamond
2.12 Digital
2.13 ET
2.14 ELSA
2.15 Genoa
2.16 Hercules
2.17 LeadTek
2.18 Matrox
2.19 Miro
2.20 Number Nine
2.21 Octek
2.22 Orchid
2.23 S3
2.24 S3 Virge
2.25 SPEA
2.26 Spider
2.27 STB
2.28 SiS
2.29 Toshiba
2.30 Trident
2.31 VideoLogic
2.32 WinFast

3. Downloading and Upgrading the Packages

3.1 Finding Out What X is installed already
3.2 Downloading the Packages
3.3 What do all these packages mean
3.4 Important for non Red Hat Linux 5.2 users:
3.5 Confirming the RPMs
3.6 Now to the Upgrade
3.7 Configuring XFree86

4. Installing on Alpha and SPARC

4.1 Alpha
4.2 SPARC

5. Where to Get More Help

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