[ILUG] Downgrading X

[Stephane Dudzinski]

redhat flavoured systems will install two sets of files in /etc/X11/
which are XF86Config and XF86Config-4, last time i had to downgrade, i
rpm'ed -e XF*, wiped out all XF86* files in /etc/X11 and install 3.3.6
binaries or sources from xfree86.org

Steph

On 09 May 2001 10:59:30 +0100, Frank Duignan wrote:
> Sorry if this appears to be a dumb question:
> Recently installed mandrake 8.0 which installs XFree86 4.03 by default.
> Anyway, my aging S3 Virge video
> card seems to output a little snow to the screen when using this (was fine
> with 3.3.3).  Tried the various fixes in the man page to no effect.  So, I
> want to downgrade  to X 3.3.6.  RPM's are installed and I can's quite figure
> out how to remove/stop X 4.03 without breaking  everything (and yes I've
> used DrakConf, xf86config, xf86cfg etc. by it still starts X4.03). Any
> thoughts?
> 
> 
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