Re: S3 Trio3D/2x Agp Video Card Problem

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From: Robert Thompson
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:00

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You may be right - I installed over the top of an existing 3.3.5 setup without
problems, but that was on a machine which is unlikely to ever have any other
software installed onto it. I was more concerned about demonstrating how to extract
a tarball - an essential survival trait on Linux I'd think.

Bob

Anita Lewis wrote:

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> >Bob
> >
> He's using RedHat; so it is better to use the rpms.  I tried using the
> tarballs before I knew that and it means getting rid of the old rpms for
> XFree86.  Then there is no indication of XFree86 in the rpm database which
> confuses things as far as rpm keeping track of dependencies when loading
> other rpms.  It really is not a good idea, especially for something as
> central as XFree86.
>
> Anita

--
It also means that $foo[1] is a part of @foo, not a part of $foo. This may seem a
bit
weird, but that's okay, because it is weird.

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Subject: Re: S3 Trio3D/2x Agp Video Card Problem
Date: 2000/04/16
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