More about xf86

[lowell]

Folx:
       The reason for my post yesterday about XF86 was because of my 
laptop, which is a ThinkPad 770. Somewhere between RH8.0 and RH9.0, (I 
suspect when the bluecurve came into existence)the distribution forgot 
about this machine. With 8.0 XF found everything just fine and used all 
the screen real estate perfectly; with 9.0, I get a 6x9 square in the 
middle and a nice big black border. 98 used to do the same thing until 
one loaded the IBM video drivers.
         The XF86Config only shows 800x600 (hence the big border), and 
when I modify the file to show 1028x768, it won't run. It knows the 
video card (trident cyber 9xxx) but wants to call itself using a generic 
svga (I think). wish 9.0 still had Xconfigurator...