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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:43:11 -0500 (EST)
Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> About 6 months ago, I was having trouble generating my X config file
> (so that it would run in 800x600, etc. etc.).  The command line
> config would work but I would never know my video card, etc.  Then
> someone told me a utility to use that actually automatically
> detected my video card and generated the config for me.  I don't
> believe I even had to install anything extra.... Configurator? or
> something like that.  Any ideas?

Well XFree86 -configure will take care of it... and it works on all
systems that XFree86 runs on...

then just move the file to where ever and use xf86cfg -textmode to
tweak it to your liking...