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Old 01-18-2008, 09:11 AM
Nico Kadel-Garcia
 
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Default Re: x server


"Enrique Perez-Terron" <enrio@online.no> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:37:59 +0100, <sheron.casaceli@booomail.com> wrote:
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>> How can i configure the x server?

>
> Check if you have XFree86 or xorg. For the former, edit
> /etc/X11/Xf86Config, for the second /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>
> The latter is described in man xorg.conf. The former similarly,
> I think.


I recommend strongly against directly editing that file for newbies. Most
distributions have a built-in X configuraiton tool. On RedHat and Fedora
recent releases, it is called "system-config-display" and should be run as
the root user in runlevel 1 or runlevel 3.


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