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Old 03-16-2004, 07:23 PM   #1
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Is there a way to configure your display in Debian? (off a knoppix HD install)


Is there a way to configure your display in Debian? (off a knoppix HD install)
to add higher resloutions, etc. . .(besides doing XF86Config) ?
A program perhaps???
 
Old 03-16-2004, 07:27 PM   #2
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You can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by hand (this is my preferred method) or reconfigure your XFree86 deb package. I think it should be dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 but I'm not sure (running Gentoo on this box).


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Old 03-16-2004, 07:29 PM   #3
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ahh, yes. . .good idea

I'll do that soon as I get back to Linux. . .

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