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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