On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:43:49AM -0500, David Cross (dacross at nwc.edu) wrote: > I've tried installing Mandrake 8.2, Redhat 7.2 and Redhat 7.3 on my Dell Inspiron, but I none of them detect the video correctly. I can get to the system through command line, but I can't run X. > > I've downloaded a nice little rpm package from Dell for running Linux on the this laptop, but each time I try to install it I get the following message: > > file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 from install of Xconfig-atimp3-1600-7-0 conflicts with file from package XFree86-4.1.0-3 Add --replacefiles when you install it. So, rpm -ivh --replacefiles [package] That will replace your XF86Config-4 file. -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 524 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020524/b87b7f68/attachment.pgp