Gentle persons: John said:
> You mentioned using the Vesa driver for the ATI card could you explain how > to do that bearing in mind that my Linux experience is very low. TIA John > Dunn > and Gene responded with a copy of his xorg.conf file from Ubuntu 6.06. Gene highlighted the essential part of this file thusly > ======================================================= > The above may not be required, but the next might accomplish it: > ===================================================== > Section "Device" > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. ATI Default Card" > Driver "vesa" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > ======================================================== > adjust the BusID address to match yours, see the 'lspci -v' output for that > info > ======================================================== The critical line here is 'Driver "vesa"'. The identifier is a string used so the Xserver can distinguish among possibly multiple devices; so long as its value is unique among the identifiers used in your conf file it can be your choosing. You can hand-edit these two lines. I had no need to identify the card's BusID explicitly, but as usual, Your Mileage May Vary. On the upside to the evolution of the Xserver, the Xorg crowd has been working to simplify configuration. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XORGHardy for one description of the process for Ubuntu 8.04LTS. Don't put anything into xorg.conf unless you have to. Enter "man xorg.conf" on your Ubuntu box to learn more than you ever wanted to know about the options. If you happen to bork your Xserver (bork is a technical term that describes many of the mistakes I've made when I acted without thinking and some when I was thinking), you can reboot and choose a recovery mode when the boot menu shows up. From the recovery menu, choose "root drop to root shell prompt" and at the command prompt enter the command "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-org" to reset your configuration to something that has a reasonable probability of working. Then reboot normally (there is an alternative to rebooting at this point, but why overload your inbox with more commands?). Regards, Kent PS - sorry for the delay in responding. The 100+ deg-F dry-bulb temperature here in the DC area seems to be affecting my ISP. My Internet connection comes and goes without warning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
