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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:40:11 -0800
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Best X configurator for laptops?
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At 9:43 AM +0930 3/31/03, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>  > Thus, my quest for a better configuration...
>
>You're jumping to conclusions that it's the configurator.

Turns out I wasn't. None of the configuration programs got me 
anywhere close. They either got the monitor wrong, the card wrong, 
the screen wrong, or a combination.

I ended up cobbling it together from some advice for Linux, some 
other snippets and so on. In case anyone cares, the relevant hard 
parts of the XF86Config for (my/the) Inspiron 3500 are:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	HorizSync    31.5-48.5
	VertRefresh  60
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "neomagic"
	VendorName  "Neomagic"
	BoardName   "NM2200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection