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<H2 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always"><A NAME="X"></A>
X</H2>
<P CLASS="western">The following are a collection of observations,
rather than a definitive reference guide, to installing and
customizing the X environment for your equipment.</P>
<H3 CLASS="western"><A NAME="No_X"></A>No X</H3>
<P CLASS="western">For those of you who are not installing or do not
want X, make sure that the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'X' =>
{...}</FONT>, is not present in the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">auto_inst.cfg</FONT>
file. Also, make sure that you do not install any packages which
have <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">XFree86*</FONT> as a dependancy.
Or you can use :
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-top: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0.08in">and
not worry about which packages are installed.
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<P CLASS="western">Please note, that even though you may have
installed the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">XFree86*</FONT>
packages, window manager packages, and /or X based applications, X
will not be configured correctly. So don't forget and type <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">startx</FONT>
at the command prompt!</P>
<P CLASS="western">Perhaps a better solution is to install X, then
use the <A HREF="section4-25.html#postInstall_and_postInstallNonRooted"><B><I>'postInstall'</I></B></A>
option to change the default run level from 5 to 3 as follows:</P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">'postInstall'
=> "</P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western"># change run level from 5 to 3</P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western">cat /etc/inittab | sed
's/^id:5:init/id:3:init/' > /etc/inittab1</P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western">mv -f /etc/inittab1 /etc/inittab</P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western">"</P>
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<H3 CLASS="western"><A NAME="Default_X"></A>Default X</H3>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.15in">If you are
installing on a relatively new computer using a newer and supported
graphics card, then the install program will probably be able to
identify what it needs with only a couple hints as follows:</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western">'X' => {</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western"><BR>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">'resolution_wanted'
=> '1024x768',</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">'default_depth'
=> '32'</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western">},</P>
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<P CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'resolution_wanted'</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in">this may be one of:
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">640x480</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">,
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">800x600</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">,
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1024x768</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">,
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1152x864</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">,
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1280x1024</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">,</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">
1400x1050</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">, </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1600x1200</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">,
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">1920x1440</FONT><FONT FACE="Times, serif">,
or </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">2048x1536</FONT>; its
very dependent on the type video card that you have installed and
the monitor that is used.</P>
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<P CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'default_depth'</FONT></P>
</TD>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in">this may be one of: <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">8</FONT>,
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">15</FONT>, <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">16</FONT>,
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">24</FONT> or <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">32</FONT>;
its very dependent on the type video card that you have
installed.</P>
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<H3 CLASS="western"><BR><BR>
</H3>
<H3 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always"><A NAME="Manual_X"></A>
Manual X</H3>
<P CLASS="western">Manual configuration of your Card and Monitor
values will require that you reference the files:
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/share/ldetect-1st/Cards+.gz</FONT>
and <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">MonitorsDB.gz</FONT> for some
information. And possibly the manufactures documentation too.</P>
<P CLASS="western">If the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'ddcxinfos'</FONT>
command does not work with your video card, or it returns incorrect
values, then you can preset or over-ride the basic values as a first
step, as follows:</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western"><BR>
</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">'resolution_wanted'
=> '1024x768',</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">'default_depth'
=> '32',</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in"><BR>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">'card' =>
{</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.4in">'type' =>
'ATI Mach64'</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">},</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">'monitor' =>
{</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.4in">'EISA_ID' =>
'aocd556'</P>
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<P CLASS="coderef-western" STYLE="margin-left: 1.2in">}</P>
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<TR>
<TD WIDTH=100% VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR="#e6e6ff">
<P CLASS="coderef-western">},</P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-top: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0.08in">The
value for <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'type'</FONT> is extracted
from the Cards+ file from the NAME field in the section appropriate
to your card. The <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'EISA_ID'</FONT>
value is obtained from the MonitorsDB file, <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace"><EISA
ID></FONT> field and all letters must be LOWERCASE .</P>
<P CLASS="western">Anything beyond this and you should really use the
<A HREF="section5.html#Replay_Install"><B><I>Replay Install</I></B></A> and add
the selection <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'Summary'</FONT>.
</P>
<H3 CLASS="western"><A NAME="Multi-Head_X"></A>Multi-Head X</H3>
<P CLASS="western">For this one you really want to use the <A HREF="section5.html#Replay_Install"><B><I>Replay
Install</I></B></A> and add the selection <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'Summary'</FONT>.
</P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.15in">An interesting
feature, when XFree86-4 is used, is the ability to use both a regular
mouse device and a Wacom graphics tablet. See the following
references for more details:</P>
<P CLASS="western"><A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Wacom-Tablet-HOWTO.html">http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Wacom-Tablet-HOWTO.html</A></P>
<P CLASS="western"><A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Wacom-USB-mini-HOWTO.html">http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Wacom-USB-mini-HOWTO.html</A></P>
<P CLASS="western"><A HREF="http://www.lepied.com/xfree86">http://www.lepied.com/xfree86</A></P>
<P CLASS="headings-special-western">Related Option Entries:</P>
<P CLASS="western"><A HREF="section4-20.html#mouse"><B><I>mouse</I></B></A></P>
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