• jonne@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    You don’t have time to be depressed when you’re trying to fix xorg.conf. (yeah, I know, super dated reference, Linux is actually so good these days I can’t find an equivalent joke).

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      I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… CRTs on fire from an xorg.conf typo… I configured display servers in the dark cause the screen was black… All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to switch to Wayland.

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        5 months ago

        You haven’t lived until you’ve compiled a 3com driver in order to get token ring connectivity so you can download the latest kernel source that has that new ethernet thing in it.

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      Editing grub.cfg from an emergency console, or running grub-update from a chroot is a close second.

      Adding the right Modeline to xorg.conf seemed more like magic when it worked. 🧙🏼