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The man page for XF86Config tells me that the old convention is to use the Section "Keyboard"
but they don't tell you how to specify the driver/keyboard/device.
What distro are you using? The xf86config is really picky, can't make any mistakes I have always found out and sometimes in my own experience it fails at times too. Try to rerun it again. If your using like Redhat you can try Xconfigurator, SuSE uses Yast or SaX, and so on.
wow, what a bitch. Sorry you're having issues- - let's see if I can add anything valuable:
open up the file '/etc/X11/XF86Config' in some editor. Gedit is fine if you're in GNOME, it's in the applications menu, or just do 'vi <filename>' from a command line if you know vi.
You should be able to see EVERYTHING X sees when it starts up. There should be a 'Screen' section that defines your monitor and video card, then the default depth and video modes. You can add modes in, replace what's there, etc, using the syntax you see there.
Hey sveede!
"i KNOW i set up the monitor and card right, i even calculated the H/V synchs by hand to get the right values :P "
Is there a way you can find the approx H/V synchs from the monitor size??? I have had nightmares by trying to modify the XF86Config file and I ended up reinstalling my OS all over again. I don't have my monitor specs and it wud be very useful if you can tell me if there is a correlation between the H/V sync rates andthe monitor size?
Sorry, I don't know much to be of any help to your problem.
I did a bit of tinkering myself; sadly I still can't get my monitor to display 1600x1200 in 16 or 24 bit colour (it does so quite happily in Windows). I wonder whether there are still some problems with the XFree86 savage driver.
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