On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:12, Mick Boda wrote:
> 1. Is there an Xconfigurator type command to generate a new
> XF86Config-4 file?
There's a few. All my debian boxes died of hard drive seizures a while
ago, so I can't give you exact syntax. In general if you're looking for
something quick that'll work on any linux distro, you do this:
XFree86 -configure
>From the man page (which is probably worth at least a cursory glance) it
says:
-configure
When this option is specified, the X server loads all video
driver modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out
an initial XF86Config(5x) file based on what was detected.
This option currently has some problems on some platforms, but
in most cases it is a good way to bootstrap the configuration
process. This option is only available when the server is run
as root (i.e, with real-uid 0).
only with better formatting. If you just want to see if it's all
installed and can talk to your hardware etc, it's probably a good
option.
That said, most distros will come with their own tool to do this. These
are generally "better" in some sense of the word. The one on this box
for example can go off and hunt down the truetype fonts on a
hypothetical windows partition and install them in X, ghostscript etc. I
haven't read all my mail yet, but I'm sure someone has posted the way to
do it on debian already. Nonetheless thought that may be useful.
> 2. I have a Radeon 7500VE, should the device driver be "ati" or
> "radeon" (if it should be radeon, it ain't listed in 4.2)
hrmm. My laptop has a Radeon M6 somethingsomething. I have 'radeon'
listed in my config. Except in the case of Nvidia cards, I normally just
go with whatever XFree86 detects. ATI supposedly released some drivers,
which are supposedly better, but my experience has been that it's a bit
of a moving target. I currently just let the computer choose what it
wants to and upgrade X and my kernel semi-regularly. Every once in a
while I find something new that works and something new that doesn't.
> 3. I tried jamie's link to gnome downloads. I tried
>
> "deb
> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/
> backports/woody gnome2.2" I recieved a 404 error. I tried a few
> combos, adding space ./ at the end, removing http:// and just using
> ftp://, didn't try ftp://ftp, ..... correct me if I'm worng (maybe I
> should have just put correct me ... thre wrong is usually a given) ftp
> and http are two different ways of downloading so you can't mix them?
http and ftp are indeed distinct protocols. In general using them
interchangeably is imprudent. Unfortunately that's all I can tell you on
this one :)
James.
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