[ILUG] debian beginner questions...

Hugh Mc Gauran cantona at csn.ul.ie
Fri Dec 1 11:55:05 GMT 2000


it does.....the version that comes with redhat 7.0 does anyways


On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Gary Coady babbled:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:44:35AM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:
> >  I've reinstalled my machine in work with Debian (woody). Only the X
> > configurator seems busted - it makes a ~root/XF86Config.new file, and
> > tries to start up with that - only it makes one with no modelines, so
> > breaks. I hand edited the file, and started up X. Then tryed to run the X
> > config tool again. It picked up the display, and expected
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to be there. So I copied the XF86Config.new to
> > there, and it's getting there. Now the config tool just says "Can't open
> > cards database". Any idea what's the story ?
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Xconfigurator works with
> XFree4. There's a tool called dexter which might help, otherwise, there's
> always xf86cfg...
> 
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