OK. I played with that X configuration tool for a while and managed to get a
1024x768x24 picture.
I'm glad I have the manual.

Installing now. Then I can worry about getting it to show 1650x1080.


On 1/18/07, Jared Ubelhor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have openSUSE 10.1 running on the machine currently. It's not broken

On 1/18/07, Bob Miller < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> Jared Ubelhor wrote:
>
> > I have Mint (Dapper Drake, basicly) installed on my other PC, and it's
> > pretty slick. I'd like to install it on my main machine, but when X
> starts I
> > get no picutre.
> > Doing a CTRL + ALT + F1 gives me a beautiful scramble of colors.
>
> First, try a couple of live CDs.  See if any of them configure X
> correctly.  If so, you know the problem's soluble.  You might just
> copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the live CD to external storage (pen
> drive, network file server...).
>
> Second, can you log into the broken PC at all?  Boot in recovery
> mode maybe?  If so, then I'd try turning off X(*) and running
>
>     $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> That will play "20 Questions" with you.  You can test the configuration
> by running startx from the console.  If startx locks up, you can
> probably get back with either <Ctrl>-C or <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace>.
>
> Alternately, just copy the xorg.conf that the live CD created into
> /etc/X11 and reboot.  It might work.
>
> (*) How do you turn off X?  See the update-rc.d(8) man page.  You want
>     to find out whether you have xdm, kdm or gdm.  Remove it using
>     "update-rc.d remove", then restore it later with "update-rc.d
>     defaults".
>
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