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Old 12-30-2002, 09:04 AM   #1
soda
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Your experience with 'XFree86 -configure' ?


Hello all,

I was wondering what positive or negative experience you have made using the command 'XFree86 -configure', that is whether it could auto detect your card or not. Also, can anyone tell me what modules (vga, vesa etc.) and what resolution/colordepth XFree86 will set in the XF86Config.new file when it can't auto detect the video card after typing in the command 'XFree86 -configure' ? Does anyone have any experience with that? I can't tell as it auto detects my ATI Rage 128, so I was curious. Also, I would like to know from those people if the provisional XF86Config file created by XFree86 also worked for them?

Many thanks in advance.

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Old 12-30-2002, 09:20 AM   #2
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I tend to use the xf86config tool to configure my X and it never fails me. And the XF86Config file it creates works like a charm with no modifications to it.
 
Old 12-30-2002, 01:25 PM   #3
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I've had some experience with that on BSD. Mine found the ATI card I had but did not autodetect it on the install. VI the xconfig.new file and see if it has "AT" under the card. If so it's got the right drivers, you just need to add some lines under the monitor and screen on that file. Get the vert and horiz refresh rates for your monitor off the web or in the documentation and add/replace that to the file. As well as the DefaultColorDebth. You will see the format in the file.
 
  


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