Re: configuring xwindows?

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Subject: Re: configuring xwindows?
From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:26:36 +0200
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Hello

Jake Johnson (<plutoid@plutoid.com>) wrote:

> I have seen that redhat does a great job with configuring the xserver
> and
> I was hoping that Debian has something comparable.  Please let me know
> so I don't have to try and play with xf86config!

The way I prefer is to configure X with debconf:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
(if you use XFree 4)

There are also some packages that can help you get information about
your hardware, for example hwdata, discover and read-edid (to read your
monitor capabilities).

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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