Re: S3 Trio3D/2x Agp Video Card Problem

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From: Doc
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:00

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:52:45 +1000, sagraeff <sagraeff@nospam.powerup.com.au>
 wrote:
>
>PS. Beware of VMWare. Just installed it today and my X display completly died.
>Had to reset my XF86Config settings from scratch. Now only my root account will
>display X on my monitor. My other user accounts still seem to be set in an
>invalid mode (ie the monitor locks out), although the X server still runs OK.
>I know for sure they are using the same config file. Very weird.
>Clues anyone?
>

It sounds like you have a copy of XF86Config in /root. XFree (for members of
group root only) will override /etc/X11/XF86Config if there is a copy in the
home directory. If /root/XF86Config exists, X is using that when you run it as
root.

-- 
 Doc Shipley
   Network Stuff
      Austin, Earth

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Subject: Re: S3 Trio3D/2x Agp Video Card Problem
Date: 2000/08/22
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