Hi,
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 09 September 2006 13:14, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Thanks to all who have replied, but my problem *is not* with my mouse. >> I went through that issue the very first time I installed Gentoo and >> know that I have to change it to /dev/psaux. > > Sorry, I only mentioned the mouse because it has been a regular xorg problem > for me. A couple of years ago I was also using /dev/psaux, but moved on > to /dev/input/mice/ since and also changed the kernel config accordingly. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was lashing out. Like you, I had a terrible time with my mouse the first time I installed Gentoo and now I now how to get over *that* hurdle. :-) > > Viewport refers to your virtual screen which is larger than the physical > monitor screen. Placing the cursor at the edge of the monitors scrolls the > screen in that direction, until the edge of the virtual screen is reached. > Useful in small monitors. Ok. Thanks for the explanation. I now know that this doesn't apply to me - my monitor is 19" and I have no need to configure it larger that physical size. > > As far as know there is no section "Display" in xorg.conf. I think you need > to change that to Section "Screen". Here's relevant extracts of mine for > your perusal. > > This is part of my xorg.conf in case it helps: > ======================================= > Section "Monitor" > DisplaySize 336 269 # 96 DPI @ 1280x1024 > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "NEC" > ModelName "NEC LCD1860NX" > HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0 > VertRefresh 55.0 - 85.0 > Option "DPMS" > Modeline "1280x1024" 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 > 1066 > EndSection Well, obviously, I'm going to have to change this to something that corresponds to my monitor. I'm a bit frustrated because running Xorg -configure used to give me a working configuration with the Monitor and Screen sections completed. I don't know what happened since going to modular X Anyway, I'm not sure that I understand some of the above - like DisplaySize 336 269 ... what is this? centimeters? and how do I know that the resolution is 96 DPI? I think I remember seeing something that explains the "Modeline" line. I'll see if I can find it and figure that one out. Thanks for the response. Take care, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
