Which version of XF86 am I running?

[Badfrog66]

Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot.

How do I tell which version of X I have from the commandline? I read something somewhere about a -V switch, but startx -V (shock) starts X.

I'm trying to fix a mouse problem, and have discovered the wonders of the xf86 website's online docs, but what I am seeing for 4.x XF86Config don't match what I'm seeing in my XF86Config. I have a pointer section in mine, does that mean 3.?

[SubPar]

Try running "XFree86 -version" on the command line.

[Nehal Mistry]

uh... i dont know what distro that works on subpar, but this is the generic way:

X -version

:rolleyes:

[SubPar]

Fine, fine, fine. I didn't know that XFree 3.x didn't have a /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. I was just going by what worked for me. Here's what I have:


[user@localhost user]% ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 8 07:49 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> XFree86*

I run XFree 4.02 compiled from scratch.