Nvidia which people love to hate has both a console command to generate your x config or a handy gui which lets you set options and then write the resulting config to a file of your choosing. This worked fine in 2003.

I ran friggin Gentoo of all distros and even then I didn't need to configure X beyond setting the caps lock key as ctrl.

The best part was the warnings about how you could damage your monitor.

"> The early 00s were a fun time being given all those gold bricks.

Only you enjoyed lifting weights."