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Yaverot
  
| | #1 posted December 17, 2008 at 6:42pm (EST) |
Now my X setup has been fine, and in a purely functional sense it still is.
But, I just installed wine so I can further ween myself from reliance on my 98 machine. (It is only a game system).
Starcraft ( and broodwar) are fine (if a little slow), except the screen isn't centered; which I suspect is because I haven't set multiple resolutions and color depths up for X.
Various googling keeps comming back to "pull up the specs on your graphics card from the manual and/or manufacturer's website, then hand edit these lines in xorg.conf and don't blame us if you fry your monitor".
Is there really no tool that'll safely probe your hardware and add the right lines to xorg.conf? How do DSL, Puppy and Knoppix get around this problem?
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Joyeux L. |
oulzac
  
| | #2 posted December 18, 2008 at 3:06am (EST) |
what distro are you running?
and what is your video card?
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Yaverot
| #3 posted December 18, 2008 at 1:55pm (EST)
edited December 18, 2008 at 4:33pm (EST) |
I'm running Gentoo. It has been forever since I put the vid card in, I think it's a geforce 4 MX 440. Although I'm looking for usable general answers, since each system has a different card.
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Joyeux L. |
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