also sprach dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> [2002.01.11.0156 +0100]: > | not really. maybe i am misremembering. but it's highly prefered over > | editing XF86Config by hand. unless you want to read the manpages, > | web, and spend some time to get it working. it *is* possible, they > | say... > > I'll say it's possible :-). It's the only way I got my display to > work at the resolution I wanted. Well, that was before I switched to > framebuffer. Then the config is trivial! really? with framebuffer, i couldn't get tty[1-6] working anymore. they were just blank. but yes, *after* dexconf (for 4.x), i had to modify the ModeLines too. but i wouldn't want to deal with writing the config from scratch by hand... > | then again, why would 4.x be reading the XF86Config file? it has > | XF86Config-4 to worry. > > If there is no -4 file it looks for the "regular" name. This is nice > for those running only X4 since the name stays consistent with what > they are familiar with, etc. The purpose of the new name is to allow > side-by-side installs of both v4 and v3 X servers. makes sense. then this must be the problem. go for it, nori! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck upgrade your nt to debian to replace your microsoft with a woody.
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