Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, frank hunt wrote: > >> Xorg logs show "Fatal server error:no screens found". Probably a driver >> issue - anyone got any ideas? > > Yup. Not the driver, but the resolutions in xorg.conf's Screen sections. > Open that file (don't know where the ubuntus put it, but on Slackware it's > in /etc/X11/), go to the screens section and you should see something like > this: > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Regular Screen" > Device "nVidia GeForce 6150" > Monitor "Acer LCD" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Virtual 1440 900 > Depth 24 > Modes "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" > EndSubSection > > My Acer monitor does no more than 1440x900 (which is fine for eyeballs > with many miles on them), and I'll bet your Screen section shows no higher > resolution, either. > > Add the one you want at the left of the group. > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
Rich, The newer versions of X.org autodetect everything so there is no xorg.conf (FYI this makes things really screwy when using a KVM switch because there is no "state info" available if the switch is set to another system at boot time - but that's a different story). I have created several xorg.conf files by various means and had limited success. I think the problem is further exacerbated by having two methods of setting resolution - one from nvidia and one from linux. Maybe I'll fool around with xrandr . . . -- frank hunt (L0F) R0B-ZAR1 befuddled linux admin erstwhile photographer hillsboro oregon _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
