On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:00:47AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's > frequency rate, etc, or can you just select the resolution an bitmap mode as > in 1152x864 and 24 bit? >
I just installed the frozen potato, and the cold spud tried to make me use xf86config to generate my XF86Config file. I outsmarted the icy tuber by hitting ctl-C and then saying "no" every time it asked me again, and then I used the bronze tool known as XF86Setup to get a suboptimal but perfectly functional XF86Config file in place. On the way, I had to get rid of the electric yo-yo known as gpm, because it was hijacking my mouse. If I were in charge, I'd drop gpm's priority to "optional" before releasing 2.2, but then I always purge the dratted package anyway. If I run out of ways to kill time at work, I'll do what other debian users do when they want a thorough X config-- I'll go out on the net and beg users of other distros and similar hardware for relevant snippets of their XF86Config files.