[ltp] XF86Config silly question

[Joshua Jore]

No particular reason. If your XF86Setup file already works then I'd leave it
alone. As long as you're on a laptop display there isn't any benefit in modeline
hacking anyway. If you switch to a CRT display then go right ahead and read
HOWTO-XF86-Video-Tuning...  ;-)

Josh




"Alex Bell" <afjbell@onlink.net> on 11/15/99 10:20:12 PM

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Subject:  [ltp] XF86Config silly question



I tried to run the xf86config command to configure X11 on my ThinkPad
385XD using the Caldera OpenLinux CDRom which came with the SAMS book
this evening, and made a frightful mess of it - the KDE desktop looked
awful.  Fortunately I was eventually able to copy the backup copy if
XF86Config back over the new XF86Config file, and things now seem to be
the way they were.

Silly question I know, but why would I need to run the xf86config
command anyway?  Why not leave the XF86Config file the way it was after
installation?  The KDE desktop looks fine, and I can call the programs
and utilities.  Why mess with it?



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