Re: ati radeon XF86Config

[Timothy Burt <tburt@phy.duke.edu>]

Hi there --

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:31:43AM -0700, Dan Owens wrote:
> On Saturday 09 February 2002 08:15 am, Timothy Burt wrote:
> 
> >
> > 2) Did you generate the config file by hand?  If not, you could try
> >    to let X configure itself, with the -configure option (which will
> >    generate an XF86Config-4 file for you).
> >
> 
> Would you please give the exact command you have in mind?  Configuring 
> xfree86 is one of the worst things you need to do in Linux (in my opinion, of 
> course).

OK, so I'm away from a linux machine at the moment (unfortunately), so I can't
double check.  But, assuming you have X4, you just type:

X -configure

If you use both X3.3.6 (or whatever) and X4, I'm not sure what your
X wrapper points to.  In that case, you'd use xfree86 -configure explicitly.
This will generate a candidate config file in your current directory
named XF86Config-4.  To test the config file, I believe you can do
X -xf86config $cwd/XF86Config-4.

I use an ATI card with the rage 128 engine and have had no trouble, but
it seems like the radeon has been more problematic. :-(

Tim