Is there something like the old XF86Setup package out there? Text mode?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
> I'm having huge problems getting Mom's Machine (an old E-Machine) to
> come up with working video and mouse. What I would like to have is
> something like the old XF86Setup utility that would present me with some
> choices to automagically set up xorg.conf, in text mode. The machine has
> a builtin ATI Rage 64meg chipset to handle video, which is stealing
> memory from the machine. The mouse is a standard old timey two-button
> with a scroll wheel, plugged into the mouse port. This USED to be easy
> to set up and now running 8.10 is isn't. If I can get it to run, I'll
> probably put a light-weight desktop on it, like XFCE or something. Any
> one have the whereabouts of what I need?? Thanks! Yes, I have looked
> high and low to no avail. Ric

I would load up  XFCE and see how it goes.   There are some limited tools in 
XFCE for setting video resolution.  And beyond that, you can do some MODE 
settings in xorg.conf.

I just set up XFCE on an eee PC and it runs quite well and I get the 
normal/default screen settings.