Re: X display; xdm; wmaker; windowmaker; twm
On 03-May-99 Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Simon Richter wrote:
>> > That's something I still don't understand: Why do I have to
>> > configure things
>> > manually which are taken care of automatically with i386 Debian?
>>
>> For the /etc/X11/Xservers part, this isn't configured by i386 Debian
>> as
>> well. For the server config, noone has written a config utility for
>> that
>> yet (XF86_FBDev has other parameters than all the rest).
>
> Please don't mess with XF86Config. Copying XF86Config.eg from
> /usr/doc/xserver-common/examples (if my memory serves me right)
> should
> result in a working X configuration. The only relevant things in the
> XF86Config file
> are the mouse settings; the m68k framebuffer X server only uses the
> 'default'
> mode entry. If your framebuffer driver supports mode changes (the Mac
> one
> doesn't, and probably never will) use fbset to tweak modes.
>
> If some combination of X packages fails to install XF86Config, please
> file
> a bug against xfree86.
>
> Michael
Michael, I am getting up-to-speed on a K62/-333 Linux box with SuSE.
The AGP video card is not supported, but its chip set is (Trident-985).
It has not been possible to make things work with the approved setup
utilities, even though the video chip set is in the ..._SVGA driver.
Manually editing the /etc/XF86Config so as to add the proper mode
lines is an approved and successful solution.
I have 800x66, 1024x768, and 1200x1024 on this 17" KDS monitor.
It took a bunch of learning, and I printed out about twenty sheets of
How-to, and manuals, and cheat sheets. I am not an expert, just good
enough to get this far.
Stanley Long
Anchorage, Alaska
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