[olug] Xfree86

[Nick Walter]

I just went through the whole hoopla of configuring XFree/RedHat 7.3/KDE
to be my workstation.  There is an excellent utility called
Xconfigurator that really makes it easy to set up the basic video stuff
like resolution and color depth.  Unforunately since I was doing a
mutliple-video-card/multiple-monitor workstation I still ended up having
to dig through the config files and read obscure documentation :(

One word of caution (since it took me forever to figure this out
myself).  Redhat likes to include multiple versions of XFree.  The
config file that specifically applies to Xfree 4 is
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and NOT /etc/X11/XF86Config

Nick Walter

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 09:55, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> A good friend of mine attended the installfest and got redhat 7.3 loaded.  He said there were some issues getting his xfree86 running so I told him to bring it by my house.  What follows are the steps we used to get it working.
> 
> We ran XFree86 -configure.  This generates an XF86Config file in your current directory.  I don't rember the extension it adds but it is a unique file.  It also prints the command line to test the X server against the file.  We ran the test and the X server cam up at 640x480 with a much larger virtual desktop.  Next we changed the Screen section.  Bellow are the lines we added
>         DefaultDepth 24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
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