X-Server version? Wheris?

[cjolley]

Ok, so I installed RH 7.2 and I have the new driver tarball.
How do I find out what version of X I am running?
I am completely innocent as to Linux.
TIA
chuck

[Wombat]

Two ways to do this:

1 (easier, 99% chance it being correct): Type <I>rpm -qa | grep XFree </I>
That will go through all the packages you have installed, and tell you which ones happen to have XFree in their name. There will be a version number in the package name.

2: Only easy to do if you DON'T have X starting when you boot up. We'll go here if you have problems with 1.

[Ant]

Chuck Redhat 7.2 uses the latest version of XFree86, version 4.1.0.

[kewlcat]

For graphical logins, your XFree86 log file is at /var/log/XFree86.0.log. The version should be at the very top.

As Ant saiid, RH7.2 comes with 4.1.0.

-Rahul

[Colin Morey]

easy way

in any terminal (be it xterm or console) just type

X -version

[2Whyzzi]

Cool!

Works in OpenBSD 2.9, too.

[Colin Morey]

It should work on any OS that runs Xfree86, (free,Open,Net)BSD, all versions of linux, and possible Darwin (OsX, but that's just a rumour).



waiting on the second of my new drives before I play with my new G550 under X, but if you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

C

[kewlcat]

X -version won't always work

If /etc/X11/X points to a different XFree86 version than the one in your path (/usr/X11R6/bin), then the version that "startx" runs and the one that "X" runs will be different. So to be perfectly sure, you have to run "/etc/X11/X -version".

-Rahul

[Colin Morey]

I think you've got that one the wrong way round.

if you want to check the version of the X that should be running when you do "startx"
then,

which startx

will tell you where the command lives,..
on my systems startx lives at /usr/bin/X11/startx which references
/etc/X11/xinitrc, which in turn specifies /etc/X11/X.

which is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

if i do a "which X" I get pointed to ->/usr/bin/X11/X (a symlink to a setuid script which is a wrapper around /usr/bin/X11/XFree86

(just to complicate things, /usr/bin/X11 is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11R6/bin.

its all convoluted, so the quick and simple X -version is easiest.



but hey ho. for redhat peeps, then `head /var/log/XFree86.0.log `
will tell you what version you're running.

[kewlcat]

Exactly!

Basically, it is that convoluted. That is why the most generic way, and the one that will tell you what is actually running (not what some part of some config thinks it's running), is to look at the X log. Where is the X log for graphical logins on non-RedHat systems anyway?

-Rahul