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From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: XF86 4.2.0 "xf86cfg" command, one day at a time :(
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On 4 Apr 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes:
> > If dmesg knows so much -- which it undeniably does -- why is there no XFree86, or plain X binary command, that works "out-of-the-box?!"  In some
> That's what "XFree86 -configure" does (excepting audio and so on). How well it does it, I don't know.  See the XFree86(1) manual.

*smiles*  I stand by my lament; `XFree86 -outofthebox -configure` only does
so well... when I run X as root the screen goes blank and crackly as if in
standby.  Is this normal or should a session start, or a default background
pattern show up at the least?  Besides, the "-configure" option creates a
config file that (1) doesn't offer interactively to use /dev/sysmouse or
let the user specify, (2) insists on using the ati driver when I am pretty
sure I am supposed to use the r128 driver instead (from dmesg -a):

pci1: <ATI Rage128-RF graphics accelerator> at 5.0 irq 10

and (3) doesn't tell you nice things about getting DRI to work.  Mmph.

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