[aclug-L] Re: mysql and XF86Config
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Thanks, Jeff,
This whole exercize started because I wanted to understand XF86Config
and what XF86Config-4 was. Xconfigurator might work fine, but it
wouldn't help me understand how the system uses the files.
bruce
Jeff Vian wrote:
>I usually have good luck using 'Xconfigurator' as root, from the command
>line.
>It brings you into a menu driven configuration section where it will
>automatically detect the video card you are using and set thing up
>appropriately. It then writes the XF86config file for you.
>
>If the card is not detected you can tell it which card you have.
>You also tell it which video modes you want and what the default should be.
>
>As Tom says below, if the card is mis-identified you may have to do a
>bit of fudging to get the system to see it appropriately (after
>completing the setup).
>
>So far I have had no video cards that could not be made to work using
>this method.
>
>Thomas Wallis wrote:
>
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