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Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]



On 09/30/2007 05:00 PM, Martin Waller wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:

>> Did you try dexconf?

> I did now.  It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any
> kind, nothing.

> Is it just me or  was it easier when stuff wasn't dumbed down to
> 'attract windows users'?  I was never very quick, bit when I had to find
> out I could - I mean at least the docs were up to date so RTFM was
> actually a useful suggestion....if only I could find it (or an uptodate
> version)!

I've been stumped before trying to configure X on an old sarge system.
What solved my problem when all else failed was.... to load knoppix,
then extract the needed info from knoppix's X config file.  Ugly, but
effective.

Regards,
Ralph



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