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[Mike Bilow]

Yes, but XF86Setup has one critically important advantage over the other
tools: it will force the use of the basic VGA16 driver for its own run.  
This allows bailing out of a totally non-functional video situation in
nearly all cases.  If your system is too far gone for it to help you,
usually the only receovrse is to attack XF86Config with a text editor.

(No one should confuse xf86config, the utility, with XF86Config, the text
file generated by that utility.)

-- Mike


On 2000-05-02 at 15:24 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:

> FWIW, RedHat (6.2) includes xf86config:
> 
> Ready> which xf86config 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
> Ready> rpm -qif /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
> Name        : XFree86                      Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version     : 3.3.6                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 20                            Build Date: Mon 06 Mar 2000 11:22:34 AM EST
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> writes:
> 
> > XF86Setup is normally included in the x distributions. SuSE uses a 
> > utility called SAX which is similar in purpose to Red Hat's Xconfigurator. I 
> > believe that the STB Velocity is in the SuSE SAX database as is the 
> > VooDoo3 3000. 
> > 
> > On 2 May 2000, at 10:22, Tewksbury, Chuck wrote:
> > 
> > > anyone out there with an Optiquest Q73 and and STB Velocity video? and
> > > RedHat?  is Xfree86 this big a pain in all distributions of Linux? 
> > > 
> > > and what happened to "XF86Setup"????


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