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Thanks alot

XFree86 -configure works like the bomb! ;-)

Jeandre

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Kim Fredenberg wrote:

> Jeandre du Toit wrote:
> 
> >That option seems to work alot better than the graphical option. I am glad 
> >that I am not the only person that suffers trying to use that.
> >
> >Thanks alot for all the help.
> >Jeandre
> >
> >On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, David Lodeiro wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> Hi,
> 
> I typically do 'XFree86 -configure' as root. This method automtically 
> detects your hardware. Then I manually edit the missing parts such as 
> Monitor rates, keyboard layout etc. by hand. I find this an easy way of 
> configuring X. After I did it in this way a couple of times it made me 
> feel that it was much quicker and easier than any config frontend.
> 
> Kim
> 
> 
> 
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