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14 Jul 2025 01:56:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 14 Feb 2008 15:07:10
Message: <47b49f6e$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:56 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:

> 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.

go back to buy another one, that is.

Jim


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