[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> it was time to configure X.  In fact, that was part of
> the reason I chose to leave, since in the past I have
> found configuring X to be a giant PITA.  I haven't done
> an X installation in quite a while so I wonder, what's
> the state-of-the-art?  Calculating all that refresh-rate
> and dot-clock crap just seems so totally irritating that
> I can't believe that somebody hasn't created some tool to
> ease the pain a bit, but a (very superficial) search of
> my newly Debianized machine (primarily using "apt-cache
> search") turned up only the usual suspects (like XF86config
> and xf86config) that I was hoping to avoid.  Any tips?

I haven't played with Debian, but I'd be surprised if those tools
were the only ones Debian supplies. I've been using Redhat myself,
and what you describe sounds like the Linux of five years ago.

Redhat's X configuration is incredibly simple these days.
It should all GPL'ed, so I'd be surprised if the other distributions
didn't use it to improve, augment, or replace their own X 
configurators.


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