Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:59:56 +0100 (BST) | From | Jason Clifford <> | Subject | Re: Re: New Idea? Capture video settings details in Win98/etc. forXFree86 config |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jens Benecke wrote:
> How does windows find these infos? Normally it doesn't even look for it. I > have yet to see a Windows fresh install that does _not_ come up in > 640x480x16.
For the most part Windows gets driver config data from .inf files supplied as part of the driver installation.
It is not unknown for these settings to completely bollocks up a PC as they rarely consider that the PC will already have other hardware and Windows is none too good at handling conflicts.
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