This one time, at band camp, Price, Erik said: > Under the advice of a fellow subscriber, I realized that I hadn't > renamed the file "XF86Config" (generated by the xf86config utility) to > the more-appropriate "XF86Config-4". I did this, and this time X11 > did attempt to start up (the monitor flickered a bit), but failed. I > read the error messages and decided to apply some educated guesswork. > > Finally I think that I am able to do it, almost. I'm pretty sure that > I have the Horizontal Sync and Vertical Sync rates correct, because I > found this information on two separate web sites for my monitor > (Horizontal is 30-82, Vertical is 50-120). But I may have made an > incorrect choice in the installation as to the kind of monitor. I > picked "unsupported VGA" or something like that, because I didn't see > my monitor in the list. Should I have chosen something else? And if > so, how do I bring up the configuration (or which file do I modify and > where) to do this? "xf86config" doesn't prompt me as to the type of > monitor, but I know that I answered this question (perhaps wrongly) > during the install. I can't seem to invoke "debconf" either, if that > matters. You're looking for `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` Make sure you know your video card name and model as well as the sync ranges for your monitor. Good luck, Steve -- When there is an old maid in the house, a watch dog is unnecessary. -- Balzac
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