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>1. Introduction</A
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>The X Window System is a large and powerful (some might say
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excessively large and overly complex) graphics environment for UNIX
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systems. The original X Window System code was developed at MIT; commercial
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vendors have since made X the industry standard for UNIX
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platforms. Virtually every UNIX workstation in the world runs some variant
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of the X Window system.</P
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>A freely redistributable port of the MIT X Window System version 11,
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release 6 (X11R6) for 80386/80486/Pentium UNIX systems has been developed
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by a team of programmers originally headed by David Wexelblat
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<TT
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HREF="mailto:dwex@XFree86.org"
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>dwex@XFree86.org</A
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>. The release, known as XFree86, is
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available for System V/386, 386BSD, and other x86 UNIX implementations,
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including Linux. It includes all of the required binaries, support files,
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libraries, and tools.</P
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>Complete information on XFree86 is available at the XFree86 web site,
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>http://www.XFree86.org</A
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>In this document, we'll give a step-by-step description of how
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to install and configure XFree86 for Linux, but you will have to
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fill in some of the details yourself by reading the documentation
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released with XFree86 itself. (This documentation is discussed below.)
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However, using and customizing the X Window System is far beyond the
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scope of this document---for this purpose you should obtain one of the
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many good books on using the X Window System.</P
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>1.1. Other sources of information</A
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>If you have never heard of Linux before, there are several sources of
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basic information about the system. The best place to find these is at the
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>Linux Documentation Project home
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page</A
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>. You can find the latest, up-to-date version of this document
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there, as <A
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HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO.html"
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>http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO.html</A
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>1.2. New versions of this document</A
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>New versions of the Linux XFree86 HOWTO will be periodically posted
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to <A
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>comp.os.linux.help</A
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> and
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>comp.os.linux.announce</A
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> and
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<A
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HREF="news:news.answers"
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TARGET="_top"
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>news.answers</A
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>. They will also be
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uploaded to various Linux WWW and FTP sites, including the LDP home
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page.</P
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>You can always view the latest version of this on the World Wide Web
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via the URL <A
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HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO//XFree86-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO//XFree86-HOWTO.html</A
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>.</P
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><P
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>This document was originally written by Matt Welsh in the dim and
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backward abysm of time. Thanks, Matt!</P
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>1.3. Feedback and Corrections</A
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>If you have questions or comments about this document, please feel
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free to mail Eric S. Raymond, at <TT
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>esr@thyrsus.com</A
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>. I welcome
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any suggestions or criticisms. If you find a mistake with this document,
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please let me know so I can correct it in the next version. Thanks.</P
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><P
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>Please do <EM
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>not</EM
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> mail me questions about how to
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make your video card and monitor work with X. This HOWTO is intended to be
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a rapid, painless guide to <EM
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>normal</EM
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> installation using
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the new interactive configurator. If you run into problems, browse the
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<A
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>XFree86
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Video Timings HOWTO</A
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>. (This is the up-to-date HTML version of
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XFree86's `Videomodes.doc' file.) That document tells everything I know
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about configuration troubleshooting. If it can't help you, I can't
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either.</P
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