I always used until Slack 10
How can I configure my X-environment?

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Jaap van Hennik wrote:
> I always used until Slack 10
> How can I configure my X-environment?
>
xorgconfig

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Hi,

Jaap van Hennik schrieb:
> I always used until Slack 10
> How can I configure my X-environment?

What did you always use?

Use vi ;-)

I tried xorgsetup and it produced a messed up xorg.conf.
There's a xorgconf, too, I didn't try that.

Juergen

On 2004-06-25, Juergen Frieling <juergen@beer.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jaap van Hennik schrieb:
>> I always used until Slack 10
>> How can I configure my X-environment?
>
> What did you always use?
>
> Use vi ;-)
>
> I tried xorgsetup and it produced a messed up xorg.conf.
> There's a xorgconf, too, I didn't try that.
>
> Juergen

I have always been able to use xfree86setup and it worked fine. So
naturally I tried xorgsetup and got the same result you did. I used
my old conf file and it is fine. Should X -configure work with
xorg. I tried it and got the same error that xorgsetup did. Must
be some problems with their setup tools in xorg.

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Scott Cole

On 2004-06-25, Jaap van Hennik <jaap@kabelfoon.net> wrote:

> I always used until Slack 10
> How can I configure my X-environment?

Just copy your old /etc/X11/XF86Config file from 9.1 into 10.0 as
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. Mine works perfect. Naturally, back up xorg.conf,
first.

nb

Juergen Frieling wrote:

<snip>
> I tried xorgsetup and it produced a messed up xorg.conf.
> There's a xorgconf, too, I didn't try that.
>
> Juergen

xorgconfig seems to be working properly.

Regards!

Paulo

Jaap van Hennik wrote:

> I always used until Slack 10
> How can I configure my X-environment?
>
I've just now installed 10.0 on a freshly formatted partition,
took all the defaults, and when I felt like going to X, (i.e.
had all the stuff configured that a console is better for
anyway), I typed

$ startx

and it came right up. I didn't have to configure _a thing_!

Try it, you might be pleasantly surprised.

I know I continue to be pleasantly surprised by Slack, and
am here to tell you that so far every problem I've had with
it has been from poking around where I don't know what I'm
doing.

Go figure. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

On 2004-06-27, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

> anyway), I typed
>
> $ startx
>
> and it came right up. I didn't have to configure _a thing_!

Yes, I was surprised by this.

Some people would see this as a good thing, but there are two sides to the
coin. The pro side is X is automatically configured for you. The con side
is the X defaults may not be what you want. Pro: if you were going to
manually configure in the first place, it should be no problem to configure
in the second place. Con: assumes you know how to configure X. Pro.... no
wait, that's a con.... ummmm... Oh screw it! Copy yer old config file into
10's X11 directory!

nb

"notbob" <notbob@nothome.com> wrote in message
news:TeHDc.190456$Ly.75907@attbi_s01...
> On 2004-06-27, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:
>
> > anyway), I typed
> >
> > $ startx
> >
> > and it came right up. I didn't have to configure _a thing_!
>
> Yes, I was surprised by this.
>
> Some people would see this as a good thing, but there are two sides to the
> coin. The pro side is X is automatically configured for you. The con
side
> is the X defaults may not be what you want. Pro: if you were going to
> manually configure in the first place, it should be no problem to
configure
> in the second place. Con: assumes you know how to configure X. Pro....
no
> wait, that's a con.... ummmm... Oh screw it! Copy yer old config file
into
> 10's X11 directory!
>
I didn't have to even do that - all the defaults are an ordinary install.
What I _did_ have to do is copy those lines about the 5 buttons and emulate
z axis or whatever they are. Didin't they fix that? If so, how do I activate
the fix? Is there someplace where I should put "imps2?"

Thanks,
Rich

On 2004-06-28, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:

> What I _did_ have to do is copy those lines about the 5 buttons and emulate
> z axis or whatever they are. Didin't they fix that? If so, how do I activate

Can't say, Rich. I eschew scroll mice and their ilk in favor of old
3-button rats. But, as you point out, just copy over whatever worked for
you before, be it a few lines or the whole file. In my case the defaults
for 10 were not viable because I'm a geezer and I wanted 800x600 only, with
no virtual desktop, which the xorg defaults don't deliver. But, I still
have to do a little tweaking, as xorg now provides 32bit depth, which my old
script does not. .

nb