How to Manually setup Xfree from Xwindows?

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 1:56 am by Jiltin
Filed under: Unix Scripts 

How to Manually setup Xfree from Xwindows

This is to fix the dell laptop issue with xfree

login as root

load the RHAS3.0 disk 2 and copy all XFree*rpm to a directory

rpm -Uvh –nodeps XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-doc-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-libs-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-tools-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-twm-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm

Reboot machine

(
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-doc-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-35.EL.i386.rpm
)

If the above did not solve, you need to all this junky stuff!!!

First You need to have ssh login from outside

Second setup display after getting ip using finger

export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2:0.0 => hostname:displaynumber.screennumber

third start reflexion or hummingbird

say > redhat-config-xfree86 &

the xwindows display setup comes to screen

modify, save and try restart console

ATI Rage Mobility M4, 32 MB Video RAM

XFree86 -configure

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To the person having the XFree86 problem (Woody distro):

Woody comes with XFree86 v4.0 (halleluia!  ….it comes with KDE 2.2,
but that’s another story :))

To configure XFree86 , just type (logged in as root):

XFree86 -configure

This will configure the XFree86 automatically and put the file
XF86Config.new in your current directory (in my case, this was  /root).
To test it, type:

XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new

If you have problems, just edit the XF86Config.new file.  In my case, I
had to change the protocol of my mouse to Microsoft to get my PS/2 mouse
to work (Yes, I know….MS on a linux box :))

Then do the following once you are happy everything is OK:

cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Then use startx to start up your XWindows.

If you have problems, read the HOWTO at:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/index.html

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