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14 Jul 2025 01:47:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 14 Feb 2008 15:06:56
Message: <47b49f60@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:05:24 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>>> 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...
> 
> I'm just trying to remember exactly what video card I was trying to
> configure... Something obscure. It's not S3 or ATI or nVidia or
> anything. Hmm, what was it called? Might have been a Matrox of some
> kind, I don't recall now.

The Matrox cards ISTR were fairly fussy about configuration. I think I 
owned one once and swore I'd never go back.

Jim


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