I had a hard time configuring X also. What I did is use xf86config and enter all my monitor stuff and define a default tnt2 ultra card. Once that was done, I went into XF86Setup. Here I tabbed around using the tab and space keys until I found a good setting for my mouse. I have an Intellimouse, and if it was moved while in XF86Setup, until it was set right, I had to restart the setup. I also defined my default resolution, and set my video card to the correct card. For some reason, I couldn't set my Horiz and Vert sync for my monitor in XF86Setup, so I did it in config. Also, I could get the mouse set correctly in xf86config, so I had to do it in XF86Setup. darn, Hope I didn't replace XF86Setup with xf86config anywhere. Here's my usual method: Try SaX, if not, then try XF86Setup. If you have to, use xf86config. This was real hard for me to get used to, and you HAVE to know all your correct settings. This usually means having hardware manuals handy. Hope this helps, Justin On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, John Karns wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, prometheuss@juno.com was reputed to have said:
I'm trying to configure my Xserver with SaX, and this is proving to be VERY frustrating.
If you can't get SaX to work, then try 'xf86config'. You will have to know something about the horizontal and vertical refresh rates of your monitor as it will prompt for the range of frequency values. This method works many times when SaX fails.
Also, you must kill gpm if it's running before you enter X. If you forget to do so, then exit back to console (Ctrl-Fn where n is the number of the virtual console you want) then enter 'gpm -k' or '/etc/rc.d/gpm stop'. F7 will get you back to X.
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