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Re: Woody release notes



On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:20:51AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Perhaps this section should mention that installing mdetect and
> discover (and discover-data?) before installing xserver-xfree86 will
> turn on auto-detection of the graphics card?

Good point.

Several tools are available to aid auto-configuration of the X server
packages in woody:

Video card detection:
# apt-get install discover

Mouse detection:
# apt-get mdetect

Monitor detection (i386 only):
# apt-get read-edid

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