hello all, >>>and in which file do i specify my default desktop manager?
The default desktop can be changed in etc/sysconfig/desktop file >>>and more importantly, i cant get resolutions above 640x480. >>>i tried editing the XF86Config file and the resolutions are >>>in the order "1024x786" "800x600" "640x480" The first thing to be noted is that XFree86 ver 4 uses XF86Config-4 file instead of XF86Config. The XF86Config-4 has got some new additions,,, like "Driver" line inside every section, so ur graphics card has to give the correct driver there. but that is not guranteed to give a resolution over 640x480. for example my card is cirrus logic 5430.. it has got a driver cirrus but it does not give me resolution over 640x480. as u all know there are a number of X servers available. For the older machines the new XFree86 server does not seem that lovable.. Here after i'll tell u what i did. maybe its correct maybe its not,, but it works for me. Instead of XFree86 try running XF86_SVGA from command line.. before running u have set XF86Config file with correct parameters. (XF86_SVGA uses XF86Config) In the Screen section for the color svga server, the driver should be "svga" then set the desired resolution. If u r gettin resolution over 640 then its workin fine. (NOTE: There wont be any display managers, the screen will be in graphics mode with only a mouse cursor). Now to set it to the display managers... open /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, there should be an entry like this in the bottom part:- :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X, change the "X" part to XF86_SVGA. Now for gdm session open /usr/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, in the bottom servers section, u should be finding an entry:- 0=/usr/bin/X11/X. change "X" to XF86_SVGA. This should do it, now gdm, xdm and kdm should work fine. startx will still be using XFree86 so it would be giving 640 resoltion. may be u can change it and tell me. for errors and logs check: /var/log/messages, xdm-errors, XFree86.0.log $HOME/.xsession-errors /var/gdm/:0.log ( display 0 errors ) Note: What i've done here may not be the correct way to do it, if anybody knows the correct way, please tell me. (The configuration files directories maybe different for different distributions) This is my system configuration: P166 MMX, 32mb EDO ram, cirrus logic 543x card with 1mb vram, samtron SC428PT/PTL monitor, ALS 100 sound card, PCQ Linux 7.1 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
