[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

-- 
Chris Bell


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