Debian: Reconfiguring X to new video card

[Paul King]

Hello:

Just wondered what suggestions people have for reconfiguring X under Debian 3.

I used to have an ATI Radeon AGP with 64 megs of RAM. X worked fine.

I now had to replace the card with an ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card with 128 megs of 
video RAM. X crashes, and doesn't know what to do with my card.

I recall that there is on most Linux distros a fail-safe, graphical way to 
configure X. It uses a minimal 16-color X server and what appears to be a 
graphical interface to select your card, monitor resolution and whatnot. I 
thought the command for this was XF86Config or XF86Setup. I've tried both 
commands, and there is no executable with those names. xf86config gets me a 
pure text interface; and xf86cfg tries to give me a graphical interface, but 
crashes.

I use X11R6 version 4, and prefer to do without framebuffering.

Paul King
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