Re: [Sheflug] XFree4 config on Woody

["Chris J/#6" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I've got X 4.1.0.1 installed on the machine, however configuring it is
> a different matter.
> 
> I've tried the usual XF86Config, but I can't find it (either installed
> or packaged), and I'm not up to writing an XFConfig-4 for my laptop
> (workstations - pah! easy! :-)
> 

XF86Config is a redhat specific program[1], so you won't see it in Debian 
:) The "official" config program for XFree 3.x is XF86Setup...however that 
does not exist in XFree 4 ... it was replaced by xf86cfg (I think it was) 
which I gave up with as it didn't produce a working config. Instead I 
resorted to answering text-mode questions with xf86config, and everything 
is hunky-dory.

> Also (prompted by the modutils bit) how do you check the installed
> version of a package?  
> command --version is OK in most cases, but other packages are more
> than one command.

Depends on the program :) For stuff that is kernel related, the following 
list may help, as snipped from Documentation/Changes:

o  Gnu C                  2.95.3                  # gcc --version
o  Gnu make               3.77                    # make --version
o  binutils               2.9.1.0.25              # ld -v
o  util-linux             2.10o                   # fdformat --version
o  modutils               2.4.2                   # insmod -V
o  e2fsprogs              1.19                    # tune2fs
o  reiserfsprogs          3.x.0j                  # reiserfsck 2>&1|grep 
reiserfsprogs
o  pcmcia-cs              3.1.21                  # cardmgr -V
o  PPP                    2.4.0                   # pppd --version
o  isdn4k-utils           3.1pre1                 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep 
version

as for other stuff, your guess is as good as mine :) man pages and running 
"strings" over the binary and using some detective work on the output are 
about the only suggestions I have if its not otherwise obvious.

Chris...

[1] I could also never get it to give me a working config ... I avoided it like the plague and stuck with the official XFree tools :)


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