In your email to me, Dale Scheetz, you wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I have just installed all the X packages (xbase, xserver-svga etc) on my > > Thinkpad laptop 755CX. I was having troubles and assumed it was my > > inexperience with X that was doing it :) > > > > I now have a friend here who is familiar with X and now that we are playing > > properly with it we have found that it doesn't seem to be finding our > > XF86Config file. The file is kept in /usr/X11 and there is a link to it in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11?? > > > > It is dying with the error that no appropriate screen resolutions can be > > found. Does anyone know what this could be or do you need more details? > > > Sounds like you chose the wrong card information. Did you install this > with dselect? Did you use the xbase configuration options? > > If you move your XF86Config file out of the way (save it under a different > name) you should be able to run xbase-configure and rebuilt this file. You > should change the Xserver file to point to VGA16 for the configuration, > and then return to your prefered server after the configuration. If you > choose the correct card from the list the problems should go away.
I have found that XF86Setup and xf86config write to different files. The GUI version writes into the /usr/x11r6/lib/x11 dir, where it moves the existing config gile to .old . The only problem with this is that the old 'file' is the other end of the symlink from /etc/x11, which is where xf86config writes. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought." - Warren Buffett ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
