[oclug] xfree 4.0

Mark Drummond bofh at home.com
Mon Feb 26 07:04:50 EST 2001


"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:28:59PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> >
> >     Hey people. I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2, and now all the defaults fonts
> > seem way too big, bitmapped and ugly. I've crawled over my settings and I
> > can't see a problem. Did anyone else run into something like this?
> 
>     Ok, crawling through xf86config apparently set things up far better.
> xf86cfg is not ready for prime time. I don't know what it did, but things no
> longer look like crayon.

On my Riva TNT2 card, doing `XFree86 -configure` worked very well. All I
had to tweek was my default colour depth and and the necessary lines to
get the wheel on my mouse to work.

- Mark



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