On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:54:30 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>>> Something like 8 years ago, I was manually editing the X11
>>> configuration file to tell it what DAC chip my graphics card has in
>>> it... o_O
>> 
>> That was 8 years ago.  This is now - with OpenSUSE, you use sax2 to do
>> the configuration.
> 
> Or just... install OpenSUSE and it instantly works. (Although on my
> laptop I *always* have to tweak the settings to get the picture to fill
> the display...)

Well, that works as well.  Unless you have an ATI card at present (just 
updated the kernel on this machine, my t42p, and had to reinstall the old 
driver because the new one still doesn't work for me).  But I've got a 
process down now to do that.

Jim

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