Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:05:46PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote:
| In article <[🔎] 87sngkvd95.fsf@wesley.springies.com>, Alan Shutko wrote:
| > Nikki Locke <nikki@trumphurst.com> writes:
| >
| > > As far as I know, the card is Plug and Play. Why can't X probe the
| card and
| > > find out for me?
| >
| > Often, it can. You don't say whether you are using XF86 4 or
| > 3.3.6. The newer version of X is much better as scanning for
| > devices and autoconfiguring them. But that version isn't in
| > stable (although some people have packaged it). The old version
| > doesn't scan at all, and while the various setup tools try to,
| > they don't do it as well.
|
| Where should I look for a package, please?
I found mine in woody :-). It wasn't able to auto-config worth
anything on my card, but it did identify the card and give me a config
file to start with. Then 'less <backed up config from 3.3.6>' and
'vim /etc/X11/XF86Config' got it working quite well (my only problem
now is getting 1280x1024 while still having 1024x768 and 800x600
enabled).
-D
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