On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:00:58 +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
>>>
>>>
>> 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

Odd, I never had those problems with Xconfigurator myself...

Jim

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