Search your system for more than one copy of XF86Config*. man XF86Config tells the story of the search path xfree uses to find it. Maybe you have more than one copy on your system & are editing the wrong one. I copy my Caldera one into my Gentoo system, works great.
Tom Jandl On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 01:19, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I've just installed RH 7.3 on a system and need to adjust the screen so > it's centered. I am running two system connected to a common > monitor/keyboard via a KVM switch from BlackBox. One system is Caldera 3.1 > and it centers fine at the frequency. The RH system is off to the right a > little. I've used xvidtune and xf86cfg to set the values in XF86Config-4 > and get the screen centered. However, when I reset the X server > (ctl-alt-bkspace) or restart the system the screen comes back to what it > was before the change. > > Is XF86Config used anymore? It's a separate file in /etc/X11 on RH 7.3 and > is NOT linked to XF86Config-4 unlike has XF86Config in /etc and > XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11. > > I've even edited XF86Config-4 to have the same values as the Caldera system > with no luck. Why don't the values in XF86Config-4 stick? > > Thanks. > > -- > Brett I. Holcomb > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AKA Grunt <>< > Registered Linux User #188143 > Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
