Re: trouble with XFree86

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From: Dave Uhring
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 05:16

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mjt wrote:

> "Steve" <steve39@optusnet.com> wrote in message
> news:3c33ca55$0$11494$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> 
>> I don't know what VMWare is. It sounds familiar and I
> 
> not saying you SHOULD know, but i saw something in
> your log file:  "(--) VMware Guest X Server" which
> i thought rather strange. i wont be-labor what VMWare
> is, but basically, you can run another OS within a
> window of the host OS:
> http://www.vmware.com/
> 
> 
>> I did to try to configure X/Gnome type XFree86 -configure -screen
>> name
> 
> as a sort of "least common denominator", i run
> "xf86config" - it might be that i come from the
> "old school" :)  the newer ones are 'cool', but if
> you're running a laptop or newer hardware, sometimes
> going "back" to tried and true can work.
> 

xf86config is strictly an XFree86-3.3.X utility and his video adapter 
is not supported well in XFree86-3.3.X.  It is supported in 
XFree86-4.1.0 and that config utility will not help him one bit there.

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