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    [–] jonne@infosec.pub 169 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    It was definitely fun in the olden days when you fucked up your xorg.conf and you had to use elinks to try to look up a solution. At least nowadays your smartphone can be that second working computer.

    [–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    Xorg.conf was genuinely something I never quite grokked.

    I mean, I get it, it's a conf file for Xorg... but in practice, either your X11 worked out of the box, or it just didn't, and no manner of fiddling with the config and restarting the server would save it.

    You could install other drivers and blacklist others, and that would get it to work, but touching the Xorg config file itself and expecting different results was like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.

    [–] notabot@lemm.ee 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Edit the config was useful if you were trying to hook up a more unusual monitor that had odd timings or more overscan than a normal one, but it was definitely arcane magic.

    [–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) 
    Mode=50; RefreshRate= 50 Hz
Mode=51; RefreshRate= 59.9999999 Hz
Mode=52; RefreshRate= 60.0 Hz

DefaultMode=51
FallbackMode=50

    Thanks Xorg.conf

    [–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

    Back in the days when you needed to write your own modelines, that definitely wasn't true. You screw up your modelines and X emits signals that your monitor can't handle and you're out of luck. It was very normal to spend a lot of time editing your Xorg.conf file until it worked with your monitor.

    You must have come along at a time between fiddling with modelines being a thing, and Wayland taking off.

    [–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

    My ISA Fritz! ISDN card fucking killed me...
    I could, and did, live with the terminal for quite some while, surfing with Links, listening to music and even watching videos. Besides the obvious open IIRC chat in one terminal.
    But the Fritz Card was horrible to setup. I need to say, that it was ok, when it worked, but as far as I remember, I needed to compile the kernel with support for it and afterwards needed to configure some memory or bus addresses somewhere.

    As this was my only computer as a teenager, this was just a horrific experience. Cutting myself off from the information live line multiple times until I got it right.
    Also setting up dual boot the first time was a fun adventure...

    [–] YourShadowDani@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

    Links2 saved my ass a couple times switching to Linux this last year, still a staple when you prefer reading on a real screen.

    [–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

    Did this one early this year. Luckily I just made a backup of absolutely everything just beforehand.

    So I just gave up, nuked everything with a reinstall and I was good to go.