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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:20:08 +0700
From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>
To: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>,
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Subject: Re: Configuring XFree 4
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:55:37PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> On Thu Apr 04, 2002 at 04:21:59PM +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Murray Stokely wrote:
> >
> > > So the three methods for configuring X4.2 are now :
> > >
> > > 1. xf86cfg (GUI)
> > > 2. xf86config (terminal)
> > > 3. XFree86 -configure (no user input)
> >
> > None of these seem to work with TFT monitors .
> 
> FWIW, xf86config has worked for me on anything I've thrown it at
> (both for X3 and X4), including my current Sun 18" TFT, and laptop.
> Never seen why people desire anything else - "it just works".

It does, indeed, however I like X4 to be able to detect my monitor and
video card -- that's the only reason why I use X -configure (or xf86cfg,
as it's still not suitable for doing much of anything else).  All the
rest is [IMO] xf86config's job.

./danfe

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