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[Marcel Kunath]

>
> Tim Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > I had 4.0 installed on SuSE 6.4, but could never get it to run as the
> > default X server, I still had 3.3.6 installed, and Xinsisted on using
> > that.
> > I could type in XFree86 -version at the prompt, and it would display 4.0,
> > but 3.3.6 was being used.
>
> Just a suggestion:  When you get more adept with Linux, I'd
> recommend switching to a more "manual" distro.  I tried SuSE
> a while back (at version 6.0) with the hopes that YaST would
> make life easier.  Turns out I hated YaST, and I preferred the
> more manual approach (of course, your mileage may vary).

YaST isn't great at everything. I only use it for installing and removing
packages and setting up network devices. This doesn't mean you can't do things
the manual way in SuSE though.

I don't know why you(Tim) had problems with the xf-4.0 package. If you had
xf-4.0 installed and xf86-3.3.6 uninstalled and x started there must have been
xf 4.0 running. It of course makes it hard to say if you had both packages
installed which one got invoked. I think you should uninstall xf86-3.3.6 and
just install xf-4.0 package and see if x starts. If it does you got 4.0
running. If it doesn't then I suppose you will get error messages with which to
work then.

mk

PS: YaST2 is the newer tool from SuSE I can't say I like it even though I
haven't even used it yet. My friend did a NFS install over the LAN onto a
machine with 40 meg ram. By default it invoked YaST2 and it was asking for 48
Meg minimum to run the graphical installer(YaST2) One hopes that all the
distros don't abandon text based low graphics installers just because we are in
the 21st century now or they trying to please 'ex'-windows people. I can live
just fine with vga 16 as long as any setup work goes smoothly.