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Re: A C thing I think.....

• Posted by Raude Riwal <rauder at THMULTI.COM> Mar 12, 1999
• 676 views

I confirm that it is useless for us. X-configurator is a sort of graphical
shell
that is launched when _installing_ a linux system. It calls several testing
programs, asks some confirmations, and writes a text file called XF86Config
(which can be compared for some points with system.ini).
The sections are:
<searching in human memory>
 - keyboard,
 - mouse
 - monitor (all resolutions, refresh rates... are defined here)
 - graphic card (enabling some monitors as defined before, and what
resolution,
for each card section.

<I'm sure I'm forgotting something... I haven't linux at work, only $NT.
a quick call at Altavista.com and see!
an example is the best, this is the first I got:

# XF86Config file for TP365XD, TP760CD, TP760ELD, TP760ED Standard Video

Section "Files"
    RgbPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Keyboard"
    Protocol    "Standard"
    AutoRepeat  500 5
    XkbKeymap   "xfree86(us)"
EndSection

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "PS/2"
    Device      "/dev/mouse"
    Emulate3Buttons
    Emulate3Timeout    50
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "ThinkPad"
    VendorName  "ThinkPad"
    ModelName   "ThinkPad"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 37.9
    VertRefresh 40-150
    Modeline "640x480"  31.5 640 680 720  864 480 488 491 521
    Modeline "800x600"  40   800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "tgui9320"
    VendorName  "tgui9320"
    BoardName   "tgui9320"
    VideoRam    1024
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "svga"
    Device      "tgui9320"
    Monitor     "ThinkPad"
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     800 600
    EndSubsection
EndSection

... that is the result that Xconfigurator should generate. In fact, the user
must
generally correct this file to best match of his equipment.
< till now I never had the idea to search XF86Config on the web. When I
think
at how many hours I and others have spent to get it clean!>


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From: Patrick Quist
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: A C thing I think.....
Date: Thursday 11 March 1999 22:57

Hy,

I don't know much about C and Linux,
but this file is written for linux (they said)
Can somebody explain what these files contain
and can they be translated to EU.
Or if they can't, can someone convert this to a .EXE file ?
I saw in a quick view some library's of
hardware etc.
It's called X-Configurator 2.0

Bye,
PQ
QC
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