which ver of XFree86 is installed?

houmie · 03-11-2005, 09:55 AM

Hi,

How do I find out which ver of XFree86 is installed on my system?

is it 4.3, 4.2 or 4.1?

I am trying to install the ATI driver for my ATI Radeon 9600. It has different XFree86 versions.

Suse 9.2 with all updates
Dell Inspirion 8600

Thanks
Houmie

itsjustme · 03-11-2005, 10:04 AM

try xdpyinfo

here's the first few lines on my slack machine:

Quote:

bash-3.00$ xdpyinfo | more
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 60800000
X.Org version: 6.8.0
maximum request size: 16777212 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 7

druuna · 03-11-2005, 10:05 AM

Hi,

X -version should give you the correct answer.

If it does not, take a look at the last line of man X

Hope this helps.

houmie · 03-11-2005, 10:29 AM

Thanks guys,

it just says something about X org version 6.8.1

I installed the wrong driver I guess.

itsjustme · 03-11-2005, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by houmie
I installed the wrong driver I guess.

I'm not sure about SuSE, but other distros have moved from XFree86 to Xorg. The configuration of both is more or less exactly the same. Xorg may be what you need now with /etc/X11/xorg.conf

houmie · 03-11-2005, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by itsjustme
I'm not sure about SuSE, but other distros have moved from XFree86 to Xorg. The configuration of both is more or less exactly the same. Xorg may be what you need now with /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Yeah it seems it is XOrg. But I can't get rid of the XFree86 4.3 driver. It is conflicting with the XOrg and doesn't let me update it.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=300422

Any idea?
Thanks
Houmie