[Gllug] Debian..... XF86
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sun Nov 24 20:53:50 UTC 2002
On Sun 24 Nov, Xander D Harkness wrote:
>
> I have just installed Debian for the first time (apart from using Knoppix on
> occasions).
>
> All has gone extremely well except for the configuration of X.
>
> I am using a Matrox Mystique with 16M of RAM with a 1024 LCD screen. It is
> standard hardware that presents Knoppix and Red Hat without any problems.
>
> While I am happy with many of the configuration files in Linux, the X server
> ones I have never had a need to fiddle with. I have always just used
> Xconfigurator which has always worked.
>
> Is there a similar tool for Debian, xf86config does not work even when
> supplied with the correct answers. I get the error message that there are
> screens available. It states that there are screens configured but none of
> them correctly.
>
> Is it time to get dirty with the XF86config file?
>
> Kind regards
> Xander
>
If you are using the latest version,
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
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Chris Bell
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