Thanks RE: Weird Video

[Jonathan Hale]

Well, I'm new to the list and still consider myself a neophyte so I've just
been kind of lurking... but I wanted to share that file with everyone (sorta
giving back to the community, ya know?) as, like you said, it seems to work
pretty well with almost any decent card...

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
To: 'Jonathan Hale' <maclaoch at earthlink.net>; KCLUG (E-mail)
<kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: Thanks RE: Weird Video

> Yes I still have several Diamond S3 video cards in use on my low end
> systems. Excellent cards.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Hale [mailto:maclaoch at earthlink.net]
> >
> > I'm by no means an expert, but I'd check the lines in the
> > XF86Config file to
> > make sure none of the important ones are commented out...
> Looked acceptable for an automated script creation
>
> > always had to tweak with the XF86Config file a bit because
> > the autoload utilities (i.e. xf86config and Xconfigurator) never seem to
> work quite
> > right...
> Been there done that (not on this Mandrake install, yet)
>
> > I took a
> > training course this spring to prepare for SAIR certification
> > and the first
> > thing that this guy in my class who was way more advanced
> > than me did was to
> > go into the XF86Config file and start deleting out
> > superfluous lines...
> Yep, me too. I haven't done that just yet on this install. It also speeds
up
> the loading of XWindows if you do it right.
>
> > Here's a really stripped down XF86Config file...
> >
> Hmm, that was pretty minimal. I can see how that would work for most any
> respectable card. I've never gone that radical on my own XF86Config.
> Although I have calculated a few modelines in my day (really it is a lot
of
> fun you should try it sometimes, just be careful you can fry you monitor
if
> you screw up really bad).
>
> This is still one of my biggest gripes about XWindows - it can be sooooo
> difficult to set up successfully. I know there are some good utilities out
> there to do it. But, I think the programs need to check the video card,
> check the monitor and produce a list of acceptable choices for the user.
> Hell, it can't be that hard to query the ID string in the video card for
the
> card name. DOS could do that as early as 4.0 if not earlier.
>
> JMHO,
> Brian