On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 23:18, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > I haven't done an X installation in quite a while so I wonder, what's the > > state-of-the-art? > > Red Hat's current Xconfigurator will detect known video cards, query the > attached monitor for its capabilities, and generate an appropriate > XF86Config file. It is almost magic. I imagine it could be ported to > Debian, but I do not know if anyone has actually done the work. > > In the past, Debian users have told me the easiest way to configure X on > Debian is to install Red Hat and save their XF86Config file. ;-) >
I have found a great site for finding info on monitors refresh / sync rates at: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/pdp/ose/linux/lsr/pro/RedHat/instimage/usr/X11R6/share/Xconfigurator/MonitorsDB sorry this link name is so long, but it has proved quite helpful for me, especially during those interesting X setups with slackware :) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
