OLD e-machines box and XF86Config

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday,  4 October 2004 at 10:55:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> 	Folks,
>
> 	Does anybody onlist have a working XF86Config for an
> 	old year 2000 emachine 500ix? 

I suppose I'm not the only person to have no idea what kind of machine
this is.  What architecture is it?

> 	I just upgraded it to a full 256M of SDRAM and added a
> 	huge drive.  Now am getting ready toput 5.3 on there.
> 	xf86config, the shell version, didn't work, and it looks
> 	like I messed up on the GUI config.
>
> 	Assistance much appreciated.

Well, a good start would be to give some details of the machine (in
particular, the graphics card), what you've done, and what happened.

> 	PS:  oh  yeah, any opinions on xorg vs xfree86 welcome, too.

The general consensus seems to be to go with X.org, especially with
unusual hardware.  I'm doing so, and "it works for me".

Greg
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