I'll recheck the search path again to make sure I didn't miss any others 
and then I'll copy the Caldera file across and see what happens. 

Thanks to all.


> Yea, Tom has great advice.  You should be able to reuse XF86Config*
> files across distros, assuming that they're all using the same version
> of XFree86.
> 
> On 11/09/2002 05:18 AM, Tom Jandl wrote:
>> Search your system for more than one copy of XF86Config*.
>> man XF86Config tells the story of the search path xfree uses to find it.
>> Maybe you have more than one copy on your system & are editing the wrong
>> one. I copy my Caldera one into my Gentoo system, works great.
>> 
>> Tom Jandl
>> 
>> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 01:19, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> 
>>>I've just installed RH 7.3 on a system and need to adjust the screen so
>>>it's centered.  I am running two system connected to a common
>>>monitor/keyboard via a KVM switch from BlackBox.  One system is Caldera
>>>3.1
>>>and it centers fine at the frequency.  The RH system is off to the right
>>>a
>>>little.  I've used xvidtune and  xf86cfg to set the values in
>>>XF86Config-4
>>>and get the screen centered.   However, when I reset the X server
>>>(ctl-alt-bkspace) or restart the system the screen comes back to what it
>>>was before the change.
>>>
>>>Is XF86Config used anymore?  It's a separate file in /etc/X11 on RH 7.3
>>>and is NOT linked to XF86Config-4 unlike has XF86Config in /etc and
>>>XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11.
>>>
>>>I've even edited XF86Config-4 to have the same values as the Caldera
>>>system
>>>with no luck.  Why don't the values in XF86Config-4 stick?
> 
> 

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