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14 Jul 2025 02:07:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 14 Feb 2008 15:00:56
Message: <47b49df8$1@news.povray.org>
>> 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
>>
> 
> 9 years ago I said "Xconfigurator" and got a curses-based application to
> configure my X easily and correctly. Today I mostly use xorgconfig,
> which makes you need to know more :p.

IIRC, Xconfigurator never worked properly, and I always had to use vim 
to edit the X11 config, wait the the filesystem to sync, and then reboot 
the PC to exit vim... :-S

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