On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:56:50PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:29:02PM -0500, dman insinuated: > > This is caused by having a small real resolution and a large virtual > > resolution. It is nice if you want to have a 1024x768 display on a > > small monitor that can only handle 640x480. One thing I've noticed is > > that you want to put the high resolutions first in the Modeline part > > of the Screen section. It goes in order trying them till one works. > > this isn't working, but poking around in that file, i noticed that i > set my driver to "svga" and i'm not at all sure if this is right -- in > fact, i'm kind of sure it's wrong -- but i *do* remember choosing it > in the dselect menu somewhere along the way. now i'm not sure how to > change it, since running dselect config generates the same errors as
Can you run dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86? That will guide you through reconfiguring your X server (ie rewriting your XF86Config file) (this was Martin's suggestion a few emails back). Also before trying this, look for your old config files in case dpkg copied them to a safe place .dpkg-old before writing the new config files. You may find useful info in them (such as modelines, etc). Look in /etc/X11, /etcX11R6 for files that end in "onfig". (Sorry I can't be more helpful, I don't run an Intel machine so I don't run XF86, and my files are all different. Well some are different.) (This was also Martin's suggestion... don't worry about me repeating stuff you've seen already, you have a lot of problems you're trying to solve at once and I _know_ how frustrating that can be.) As for the X windows, press ctl-alt-f1 (or the f-key for the console you started X from), and look at the messages printed on the screen by the X server. The lines starting with ++ (if there are any) are lines from your X config file that worked. The lines starting with -- are lines from your X config file that failed and were discarded. When I was trying to get X working, I noticed that the X server failed to recognise _any_ of the modelines I had set and was using 320x200 resolution (!) as a fallback. (This was on my friend's intel machine that did use XF86.) The same might be happening to you. You should be able to fix this with a corrected X config file (because it was working before). This is where your old one will come in handy (for the info in it - it will probably be the wrong syntax to use directly - IIRC you are having these problems because you upgraded your X server (indrectly)?). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the GNU age! http://www.gnu.org
