[PADS] Upgrading the Libranet

[Michael Leone]

On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:48, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:24:26PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > So I temporarily booted back into the old drive. So what's a decent X
> > configurator for Debian, anyway?
> 
> I find that the graphical tool (xf86cfg) that comes with X 4.x is utter
> crap and locks up my machine more often than not.  There's the text
> interface, xf86config.  

Yeah, I was hoping for something from this geological period. :-)

This is the one I used. Same result.

> I've also found that 'XFree86 -configure' tends
> to give you a very reasonable starting point that you can fine-tune with
> a text editor.  (It places the file in $HOME/XF86Config.new (usually
> when you're doing this, $HOME is ~root), and you can test it with
> 'XFree86 -xf86config $HOME/XF86Config.new'.)
> 
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