Re: [aclug-L] Free 86 solved.

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

when i started useing linux we didn't have XF86Setup, and all this autoprobe
stuff.
we had tweek the XF85Config by hand, in the snow, up hill, both ways.
:-)
just keep trying it untill you get it close.  copy it somewhere
safe and try it a little more.
you'll get it

John Phillips wrote:

Be glad Linux is an operating system where such tinkering and
repair/modification is a viable option. :-)

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Michael Holmes wrote:

> I entered XF86Setup, that is after I entered XF86Configure and totally
> trashed my settings by entering 400x220!  I then had to fix everything
> with the shell until I got MC running, and then I went looking.  I found
> XF86Setup in the x11(something)r something in the x11 dir. r86 or
> something then in the /bin.  I then discovered apros...
> Long story short, my screen is where it belongs.  But in screwing
> around, I tried to config my sound card and trashed my modem settings,
> so I am copying them back from the print out I made when it was working!
>
> If this was not so much fun, I'd be getting pissed by now!
>
> Mike Holmes
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