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I believe the command you're looking for is:
 > XFree86 -configure

It will generate what it detects and put the config file under
/root/XF86Config.new

For myself, though, it never worked quite right and I always find myself
going back to the old command line interactive xf86config to create
my X config file.

--roop

Matt Juszczak 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?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-matt
>
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>Matthew Juszczak
>matt@webaries.com
>888-588-0556 x. 84
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