Hello,

I'm hoping to get some answers from people who bought
the cheapest version of Redhat 9 and installed it
from the CDs.

I'm having an awful time with my Redhat Advanced server,
and thinking I might be able to use the rpms from Redhat 9.

1)
Did the GUI install cleanly with no problems? Did it
work with your video card? Or, did you have to
download drivers and install them? Which brand
and model of Video card do you use?

2)
Which kernel is it?

uname -r

3)
Which version of XFree86 got installed?

rpm -qa | grep -i XFree

It will be one of: 4.1, 4.2, or 4.3.

4)

On the CDs, do you have the source rpms
(*.src.rpm) for:

XFree86
kernel

Or, is it strictly the binaries? (*.rpm)

5)
What video driver are you using?
Are you using agpgart?

cat /etc/X11/XF86config-4 | grep -i driver

(I'm assuming that your file is in the same path,
but if not, find it with:

find / -type f -name XF86Config-4
)


lsmod | grep -i agpgart


6) Bonus question. If you have an ATI
Radeon card, please include the file:
/etc/X11/XF86config-4

Thanks a lot for all your help!

In alt.os.linux linuxquestion@yahoo.com wrote:

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> I'm hoping to get some answers from people who bought
> the cheapest version of Redhat 9 and installed it
> from the CDs.

> I'm having an awful time with my Redhat Advanced server,
> and thinking I might be able to use the rpms from Redhat 9.

You seem to have lots of questions?

However, installation of ES 3.0 on a desktop was no problem, but
then you got support for one year with AS, ask RH. The packages
for AS/ES seem to be almost the same. Wouldn't use rpms from RH 9
they are probably linked against other versions of glibc/etc, you
should check.
Hint:
man ldd

> 1)
> Did the GUI install cleanly with no problems? Did it
> work with your video card? Or, did you have to
> download drivers and install them? Which brand
> and model of Video card do you use?

Unsure, some kind of built-in Intel 815?

> 2)
> Which kernel is it?

Some RH version of 2.4.21.

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:05:20 -0800, linuxquestion wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm hoping to get some answers from people who bought
> the cheapest version of Redhat 9 and installed it
> from the CDs.
>
> I'm having an awful time with my Redhat Advanced server,
> and thinking I might be able to use the rpms from Redhat 9.

Shouldn't RH support be able to help you?

> 1)
> Did the GUI install cleanly with no problems? Did it
> work with your video card? Or, did you have to
> download drivers and install them? Which brand
> and model of Video card do you use?

Yes, yes, yes, Geforce3

> 2)
> Which kernel is it?
>
> uname -r
>
> 3)
> Which version of XFree86 got installed?
>
> rpm -qa | grep -i XFree
>
> It will be one of: 4.1, 4.2, or 4.3.

2 and 3 can be answered by checking RH's ftp site or some mirror.

> 4)
>
> On the CDs, do you have the source rpms
> (*.src.rpm) for:
>
> XFree86
> kernel

Probably not on retail disks, but you can download them.

> Or, is it strictly the binaries? (*.rpm)

The kernel sources to build and install (not rpm) are on the distro disk
in a package called kernel-source-2.4.[...].rpm.

[snip]

HTH
Andreas