I have installed Slackware 10.0 and all seems to have gone
well. I wanted to configure the X server using xf86config
but this program doesn't seem to exist on my system.

This is the program that I have used on earlier versions of
Slackware and don't know of another way to do this.

Could somewon point me in the right direction?

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Regards
Chris Saunders

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:53:22 -0400, Chris Saunders wrote:

> I have installed Slackware 10.0 and all seems to have gone
> well. I wanted to configure the X server using xf86config
> but this program doesn't seem to exist on my system.

Slackware 10.0 ships with X.Org's Xservers (not the XFree86 ones).
The command you're looking for (probably) is: xorgconfig

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Jakub Jankowski
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On 2004-07-26, Jakub Jankowski <shasta@spam.atn.pl> wrote:

> Slackware 10.0 ships with X.Org's Xservers (not the XFree86 ones).
> The command you're looking for (probably) is: xorgconfig

....or just copy over your old xf86config file. It'll work. xorg has
replaced XFree86 in Slack 10.

nb

Chris Saunders wrote:

> I have installed Slackware 10.0 and all seems to have gone
> well. I wanted to configure the X server using xf86config
> but this program doesn't seem to exist on my system.
>
> This is the program that I have used on earlier versions of
> Slackware and don't know of another way to do this.
>
> Could somewon point me in the right direction?

try xorgconfig, or give xorgsetup a shot [latter one may be able to
autodetect your hardware]

* Dominik L <Dominik> writes:

> Chris Saunders wrote:
>> I have installed Slackware 10.0 and all seems to have gone
>> well. I wanted to configure the X server using xf86config
>> but this program doesn't seem to exist on my system.
>>
>> This is the program that I have used on earlier versions of
>> Slackware and don't know of another way to do this.
>>
>> Could somewon point me in the right direction?

> try xorgconfig, or give xorgsetup a shot [latter one may be able to
> autodetect your hardware]

The graphical `xorgcfg' worked quite well for me.

And just as an experiment, I tried running X without any configuration
file... It was quite usable. The autodetection stuff seems to be
pretty good.

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Chris Saunders wrote:

> I have installed Slackware 10.0 and all seems to have gone
> well. I wanted to configure the X server using xf86config
> but this program doesn't seem to exist on my system.
>
> This is the program that I have used on earlier versions of
> Slackware and don't know of another way to do this.
>
> Could somewon point me in the right direction?
>
If you've installed from scratch, give the command:
# X -configure

It will tell you what happened, and if it got configured,
it will tell you to type:
# X -xf86config /root/xorg.conf.new or something very much
like that.

This gave me the grey screen with the black X. Just for S&G,
I hit ctrl-alt-KP+ several times, and about the sixth time
looked pretty good. I hit ctrl-alt-bs, and had to reboot
because every time I've exited X except when using Xinerama,
the display is way FU - like the lines are spaced at 1 1/2,
and the 1/2 line is filled up with the bottom half of the
character above. I'm guessing it's because I put vga=ext in
lilo.conf, because I like the 80x50 display. But that's neither
here nor there - I rebooted, and ran startx, and it came right
up, in the resolution I like.

Good Luck!
Rich