On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:33 pm, Lorne wrote:
> I notice that this is mentioned in the 64 page readme file that
> came with the driver.
>
> The problem I'm having now is that they make some assumptions about
> what my config file looks like and I'm having trouble reading
> between the lines. the first time I guessed at what I needed, it
> started to come up but died. I wonder if I might be wiser to use
> XF86configurator to make fresh one, but what tool do I use to
> configure XF86config-4? it seems the old tools just modify the old
> one. It has been quite awhile since I've fooled with the old manual
> way of doing things. :) Since they have gone to 4.x of Xfree I've
> not kept up.
Well, if you feel it's necessary, I would use XFdrake --noexpert
--noauto and choose the closest to gf4 (seems like that might even
be in there now). Yeah, the format has changed recently slightly,
but I'm not so sure it's not a mandrake thing. But I got to tell you
that every distros XF86Config-4 looks different from the examples
seen and from each other. suse's is a big ole ugly mess with a
warning not to edit it manually! redhat's is called XF86Config and
looks strange. But one common thread is the basic items are there
even if they look a little different.
[s@tuxmachine]:docs$ cat XF86Config-4
# File generated by XFdrake.
#
**********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
#
**********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated
together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server
independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the
mouse doesn't work
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution
switching)
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer <- this is the glx line that XFdrake adds,
# but if not there, add yourself
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Hitachi, Ltd."
ModelName "Hitachi CM611"
HorizSync 31.0-92.0
VertRefresh 50.0-120.0
# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494
563 -hsync -vsync
# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595
630
# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590
616
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia" # <- this is where you change "nv" to "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
Option "NvAGP" "1" # <- here & following are all options
Option "NoLogo" "on"
Option "CursorShadow" "on"
Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "64"
Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "2"
Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection
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