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		xenophonf on July 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipp... Those specs weren't readily available to non-experts, never mind what to do with them. For a trip down memory lane, read through the XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO (https://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/index.htm...). Getting stuff to work in the Good Old Days was _not_ easy.

anthk on July 11, 2024 [–]

30-70h, 50-160v =)

I still remember that.

And xf86cfg, and how much Debian was improved when Sarge arrived.

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