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To: gao seng who wrote (267754)6/27/2002 8:15:42 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
I find it amusing that I report facts and you have some need to attach emotion. I use all OSes and thus understand many of the limitations of each. msft is stifled on their own spagetti code and the Government has nothing to do with it.

You seem to have some emotional dislike of open source programs that provide many with very useful tools at low cost. I use whatever provides the best solution with the least pain. I currently use msft and opensource and my latest custom install of Redhat really impressed me with the ease and simplicity of the install.

Redhat installation may have reached a level of simplicity that would even alloy you to successfully install it.

Now this custom file is only required because i am doing multidisplay with different monitors. I had to research a few How-TOs and go back to older Xfree versions to get the required hard coded mode lines

 [ 40 ] > cat XF86Config-4

# File generated by anaconda.

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Anaconda Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

    RgbPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

    FontPath   "unix/:7100"

EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load "fbdevhw"
        Load "dri"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"

#       Option  "AutoRepeat"    "500 5"

# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
#       Option  "Protocol"      "Xqueue"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#       Option  "Xleds"         "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#       Option  "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
# or:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
#       Option  "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
        Option  "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option  "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option  "XkbLayout"     "us"
        #Option "XkbVariant"    ""
        #Option "XkbOptions"    ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        HorizSync   31.0-85.0
        VertRefresh 50.0-160.0
        Option "dpms"

        # -- 1600x1200 --
        # 1600x1200 @ 60Hz, 75.00 kHz hsync
        Modeline "1600x1200"  162   1600 1664 1856 2160
                                1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "Monitor Tatung"
        ModelName    "Monitor CM17MBR"
        HorizSync   29.0-62.0
        VertRefresh 50.0-90.0
# --- 800x600 ---
# 800x600 @ 56 Hz, 35.15 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "800x600"     36     800  824  896 1024
                                  600  601  603  625

# --- 1024x768 INTERLACED---
#  1024x768i   43.5Hz    35.5k     44.9M 
    Modeline "1024x768i"  44.9   1024 1048 1208 1264
                                  768  776  784  817  Interlace
# --- 1024x768 ---
# 1024x768 @ 60 Hz, 48.4 kHz hsync
#    Modeline "1024x768"    65    1024 1032 1176 1344
#                                 768  771  777  806 -hsync -vsync

# 1280x1024 @ 61 Hz, 64.2 kHz hsync
#    Modeline "1280x1024"  110    1280 1328 1512 1712
#                                1024 1025 1028 1054

EndSection

Section "Device"
        # no known options
        Identifier   "MatroxCard0"
        Driver       "mga"
        VendorName   "Matrox"
        BoardName     "Matrox Millennium"
        
        BusID "PCI:0:20:0"
        #BusID
EndSection

Section "Device"
        # no known options
        Identifier   "MatroxCard1"
        Driver       "mga"
        VendorName   "Matrox"
        BoardName     "Matrox Millennium"
        
        BusID "PCI:0:18:0"
        #BusID
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier   "Screen0"
        #Device       "Matrox Millennium"
        Device       "MatroxCard0"
        Monitor      "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    16

        Subsection "Display"
                Depth       16
                Modes       "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x6
00" "640x480" 
        EndSubsection

EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier   "Screen1"
        #Device       "Matrox Millennium"
        Device       "MatroxCard1"
        Monitor      "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth    16

        Subsection "Display"
                Depth       16
                Modes        "1024x768i" "800x600" "640x480" 
                #Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 
               # Modes       "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x48
0" 
        EndSubsection

EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

My custom XF


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