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>4. Configuring XFree86</A
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>4.1. Normal Configuration</A
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>Configuring XFree86 to use your mouse, keyboard, monitor, and video
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card correctly used to be something of a black art, requiring extensive
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hand-hacking of a complex configuration file. No more; recent releases
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have made the process nearly trivial. It simplifies matters a lot that
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there are no longer separate servers for different kinds of cards, just
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modules loaded by a common server.</P
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>If you're enabling X as you intall a Linux distribution, the
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distribution install script will ask the few questions needed to
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configure X. Otherwise, all you need do to configure it is fire up
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the command <B
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>XFree86 -configure</B
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>Both methods depend on the fact that all new PC hardware these days
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ships with monitors that can tell X what their capabilities are. When
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invoked in this mode, X does that query and also polls your hardware
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for the presence of a mouse and keyboard. It then writes out a
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configuration file thar is used by later runs of X.</P
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>One minor point to keep in mind is that, if you're like most people
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using a current PC, your keyboard is actually what
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the default `Generic 101-key PC'. If you pick the default (101) the key
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cluster on the extreme right of your keyboard (numeric keypad and friends)
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