Setting Up Your XFree86 System

This section covers another one of the more difficult,time-consuming, and frustrating parts of installing XFree86: setting up a XF86Config file.

If you have XFree86 3.1.2 and your graphic card is listed in the Hardware-HOWTO file (see Chapter 1, "Introduction to Linux"), you should use the XF86Config program to do your configuration. This XF86Config program is a comfortable and safe way to set up your system. If your graphics card is not listed, you have some work ahead of you. check the section called "The XF86Config File" in , "Configuring X Window on Linux."

One final check that you should do is to follow the link of /usr/lib/X11/X to the correct server. If you have an SVGA card, this link should be set, via an intermediate link if any, to /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA. If the link does not point to the right server, make it point to the correct server in /usr/bin/X11.