Hello all,
Unfortunately I broke the Linux computer at work. It has software on it that is configured so I can't just reinstall and loose these settings.
To break the machine I was struggling to install an ATi X1600 GPU driver. I was attempting to install the required packages Xfree86-mesaGL and Xfree86-libs. I think I screwed things up by partially installing an older Xfree86 version (4.3) and possible disabling the current mesaGL and libs (which I later found to be registered not as the whole Xfree86-libs string etc) which I think were version 6.5 or something.
When I rebooted the machine I was greeted with a failed Xserver start.
So my question is:
Can I manually install XServer from the CDs without loosing the installed programs? (much like a dirty reinstall on Windows).
Being a rookie I need to be told the commands to do the Xserver configuration/reinstall also please.
Machine is running Redhat Enterprise (EL) 5.1 (Kernel 2.6) KDE desktop (pretty sure). All packages were up to date via the software updater tool.
All help much appreciated.