Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Apt-get install xwindow installed v4.x, however I still can't read an xf86config generated file, section headings aren't recognised, and I still have an XF86Config file rather than XF86config-4. And the logfile for startx shows it is still using v3. So how can I tell Woody I want to use 4 not 3? Perhaps I need to rip out the /etc/X11 directory and begin again like Ricardo has done. Temper is rising.
I don't wish to play games, all I want is a screen I can have 4 little xterm windows on at a time. Bah! Thanks, Jenny.
Have you removed the old X v3. from your system? try perhaps uninstalling all the X packages from that and possibly 4 and getting it to install from scratch. There is a possibility that you may want to look at the command update-alternatives instead though as this selects different packages when you have a choice of more than one. I would get rid of all the X packages if it was me though, and then try only installing Xv4.
Sorry I can't help more but until I get home and get Debian installed tonight there is not much I can do! (btw reinstalling Debian as Gentoo self destructed over the weekend again)
Adam