Re: trouble with XFree86

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From: Dave Uhring
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:58

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Troy Dack wrote:

> "Steve" <steve39@optusnet.com> wrote in message
> news:3c30fef4$0$8786$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>> Troy,
>>
>>      You said that the lines you suggested are for the X servers
>>      version
>>=
>> 4.0. Will it matter that I have 4.1? Although I am quite well versed
>> in computing, I am still only 4 days old to Linux. I do know how to
>> put those lines into the config file with emacs so I will go and make
>> the modifications and let ya know...
>>
>> -----------Steve
>>
> 
> It *should* work with 4.1, I don't imagin too many changes to config
> files
> between 4.0.x and 4.1.  Somewhere in the distribution for 4.1 that you
> installed there should be an example config file, have a look for that
> and see how you go.
> 
> IIRC with 4.x and later you can do  startx --configure or something
> like that and it will do a lot of the work for you.
> 

The command is 

# XFree86 -configure

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From: Dave Uhring <dmuhring@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: trouble with XFree86
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