> Hello
> I am unable start X (KDE) because I am unloable to configure display
drivers
> Please advise so that I can configure the X server

Sandeep,

Sorry I don't have experience with RH7.2 , but here's my notes on how I got
XFree86 4.2.99.x to work in RedHat 8.0 (Caution: this loads the whole CVS
tree - you can read the docs to figure out how to download just the 4.2.99.x
stuff):

This procedure was successful on a fresh install of RedHat 8.0 - no claim
the procedure will work on anything else is implied.
1. Get CVSup from
ftp://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/binaries/RedHat-6/
2. Place the .tar.gz file in desired directory and extract contents (in KDE,
right click on file and select "Extract Here...")
3. Launch terminal and cd to /usr
4. create /xbuild and /sup under /usr (mkdir xbuild, mkdir sup)
5.create /xf86 under /sup (cd to sup, mkdir xf86)
6. with a text editor, create a text file named a.txt containing the
following content:
*default release=cvs host=anoncvs.xfree86.org base=/usr/sup/xf86
*default prefix=/usr/Xbuild delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
*default tag=.
cvs-base
xc-all
contrib-all
xtest-all
doctools-all
utils-all
7. place a.txt in the directory where cvsup was extracted to
8. in terminal, cd to directory where cvsup was extracted to
9. run the command: ./cvsup a.txt
10. run the command several times, as necessary, until the last line in
terminal says the transfer was completed successfully
11. run the command one more time to make sure.
12. in terminal, cd to /usr/xbuild
13. in terminal, run the command: make World
14. make World may take 1 to 2 hours to complete
15. shut down xFree86, if it is running - the easiest way to do this is to
go to a terminal window and execute the command: shutdown now
This will shutdown xFree86 and a few other processes and bring up a console
prompt
16. with xFree86 not running and at a terminal prompt, cd /usr/xbuild
17. run the command: make install
18. make install will take 30min to an hour
19. reboot the machine
20. Under System Settings, Display, you should have more resolution and
color depth choices under the Intel 845 chip.


Tom Dolan

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