Re: Xconfig.

[A Brady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Monday 05 February 2001 09:24, Thomas Ward opined:
> Hello, list. I can not for the life of me get x to work on my machine no
> matter how hard I have tried.
> I have a Trident 9660 vidio card, PackardBell monitor, and I just can't
> get x to work.
> Any suggestions. I am thinking about getting a better vidio card, and
> swopping monitors.
> If anyone could help me. Thanks.

I used to have a Trident 9660 and Xconfigurator would decide it was a 9680, 
which would then try to fry the monitor.

Use xf86config (curses-based) or install all that's needed to make 
XF86Setup work (pre-7.0 does it, I haven't seen it in 7.0 and haven't 
looked into whether or not it  can be done) and use it (graphical) and 
choose your own settings. Both work much better than letting the stupid 
autoprobe stuff find the wrong settings.

Hope you have the settings for the monitor already. Packard Bell can be 
somewhat hard to locate, depending on which company made it for them.

-- 
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