Hello good people.

I have been using NetBSD for, I guess, almost a year
now. And now I have decided to use the Xwindows
(windowmaker) interface.

Regarding that, I have a question about configuring
the XF86 thingamagingie.

Do I actually need to know the hardware
specifications?

I have no idea about what kind of graphic card that
sits in the pc, other then that it is 16MB of size. I
opened up the cabinet, and took out the graphic card
to have a looksie. All stated on it was 3dfx, so I
suspect it is a Voodoo 2000 card of some kind.

I get the startx to fire up the windowmanager, but it
has a Forrest Gump kind of look. Large fonts, looks
like windows safe mode, only a little worse.

I have no specifications for my monitor either, but
that I guess is easier to get hold of, since I know
that model. I have tried mocking a little around with
the vertical sync rates and stuff like that, but to no
avail so far.

Any ideas? Do I need to chuck out the graphic card and
get one with documentations?

Why is this stuff easier on Linux, should be some kind
of autodetect here...


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