Re: X, new problems.

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

> 
> On 9 Feb 1999 jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > On 8 Feb 1999 jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Xconfigurator should not use Virtual Screen sizes bigger than real
> > > > resolution without asking but I am not the author and don't have time
> > > > to fix it.  It is not impossible that TurboLinux or Mandrake have a
> > > > modified Xconfigurator with this feature disabled.  Because
> > > 
> > 
> > Mandrake's author mailed me that he uses plain unmodified
> > Xconfigurator 3.89 in conjunction with XFree 3.3.3.1.
> > 
> > TurboLinux uses its own GPLed program called turboxcfg.  It is derived
> > from Xconfigurator.  I cannot test it at this time.  Anyone wanting to
> > try it?  URL is http://www.pht.com.  It MUST be the very latest
> > version in the upgrades section in order to be able to work with XFree
> > 3.3.3.1
> 
> I don't know the licenses, but SuSE's latest SaX is really nice...
> 

In addition to license problems SaX would probably mean major changes
in installation (different libs to begin with).  In addition in France
nation-wide Linux install party I had the occasion to use the one
shipped in Suse 5.3 and I found it was great when things go well but
it didn't let me to fix a problem with the monitor.

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
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