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Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

From: Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty(at)porchlight.ca>
Date: Sun Sep 30 2007 - 17:19:50 EDT


On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:12:50PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
>
> I've been stumped before trying to configure X on an old sarge system.
> What solved my problem when all else failed was.... to load knoppix,
> then extract the needed info from knoppix's X config file. Ugly, but
> effective.
>

I never could get X working with Sarge's drivers. I ended up keeping Woody's X system installed.

Debian doesn't run that well on my old boxes, so I tend to use OpenBSD. Their Xorg stuff runs just fine on video cards that don't need closed-source drivers.

Doug.

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