On Monday 10 February 2003 08:07 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:27, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > Julian Templeman wrote:
>
> <amputate irrelevancy here>
>
> > You will end up with a 1024x768 desktop though, so you'll have to edit
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (digression - why are there two files? Why is the
> > "-4" there?)
> > --
> > Richard Urwin, Private
> > "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."
>
> Afaik it is a new standard set by the X-Free86 consortium for the new
> XWindow 4.2.x (i hope thats the right version #) graphics output
> system.  Hm... In simpler terms:  XF86Config is the old "standard" cfg
> file for Xwindow up to ver 3.x.x IIRC.  When XWindow 4.x.x came around
> they needed to add new parameters to that config file.  Instead of
> re-writing it from scratch they appended a new file with some of the old
> parameters & some new ones added in for newer graphics cards.  If you
> compare the two files they are nearly identicaly in all respects except
> that the XF86Config-4 one contains some newer modelines & some other
> techy errata that means nothing to anyone outside the Consortium... or
> Civilme perhaps. <G>
that's about right if you have a -4 it uses that, if not it knows you are in 
Xfree86 ver3xxxxx

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