Re: Screen Aspect Ratio
On 10/04/2012 06:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Stephen. You wrote: As a result of my stupidity in attempting to modify the screen drivers I have managed to change my display into something really ugly. The aspect ratio is off and the number of available fonts is really limited. (I also have OpenSUSE 12.2 on another HD and the screen is normal, leading me to conclude that the problem lies in Debian) I have switched to Debian and am wondering what display utilities are available? Google hasn't been on any help If You did some config. modifications by a normal user, then You can simply move all the user's home dir. content to another place and then relogin. If did that under root user, then You have to reconfigure those services, for example by simple removal of the config.s to safe place and restart the service, OR using debian package reconfigurator, or download from Internet its options OR reinstall the package having purged it previously. Sthu. I think that I have located the problem. The monitor resolution is set at 1280x1024 by Debian. Also there are only four solutions listed in System Settings/Size and Orientation. I have an OpenSUSE 12.2 installatopn on another hadr drive in the systen and it's resolution is 1680x1050 with eleven additional different resolutions. I had a screen resolution of 1680x1024 for the Debian desktop before I started trying to change the dcreen drivers. That's what I would like to get back, but don't have any idea how to accomplish this. I did look at the Synaptic Package Manager logs and removed the mistakes that I made and reinstalled the packages I'd removed, but that didn't correct the problem. I would assume that there may be a configuration file lurking somewhere that has to be edited, but I am leery of making any changes, as I clearly don't know what I'm doing. Any assistance will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50719597.4080...@sbcglobal.net
Re: Screen Aspect Ratio
On 04/10/12 06:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Stephen. You wrote: As a result of my stupidity in attempting to modify the screen drivers I have managed to change my display into something really ugly. The aspect ratio is off and the number of available fonts is really limited. (I also have OpenSUSE 12.2 on another HD and the screen is normal, leading me to conclude that the problem lies in Debian) I have switched to Debian and am wondering what display utilities are available? Google hasn't been on any help If You did some config. modifications by a normal user, then You can simply move all the user's home dir. content to another place and then relogin. If did that under root user, then You have to reconfigure those services, for example by simple removal of the config.s to safe place and restart the service, OR using debian package reconfigurator, or download from Internet its options OR reinstall the package having purged it previously. Sthu. The main X configuration file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If you rename this, Debian/X will try to detect your display and adapter. You can also boot to a root prompt and try X -configure to produce an xorg.conf file to experiment with. If you are using proprietary drivers, they each have a configuration utility that should help. Sthu's suggestion of using the purge option with apt-get/aptitude is also worth trying. And there's the kernel mode setting driver to consider. If it's not set properly, you can get into all kinds of problems. You will also find a /etc/X11/fonts directory that may have been screwed up. If so, you could try renaming it then re-installing X. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50719dd0.7050...@rogers.com
Re: Screen Aspect Ratio
On 10/07/2012 11:58 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/07/2012 11:20 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 04/10/12 06:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Stephen. You wrote: As a result of my stupidity in attempting to modify the screen drivers I have managed to change my display into something really ugly. The aspect ratio is off and the number of available fonts is really limited. (I also have OpenSUSE 12.2 on another HD and the screen is normal, leading me to conclude that the problem lies in Debian) I have switched to Debian and am wondering what display utilities are available? Google hasn't been on any help If You did some config. modifications by a normal user, then You can simply move all the user's home dir. content to another place and then relogin. If did that under root user, then You have to reconfigure those services, for example by simple removal of the config.s to safe place and restart the service, OR using debian package reconfigurator, or download from Internet its options OR reinstall the package having purged it previously. Sthu. The main X configuration file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If you rename this, Debian/X will try to detect your display and adapter. You can also boot to a root prompt and try X -configure to produce an xorg.conf file to experiment with. If you are using proprietary drivers, they each have a configuration utility that should help. Sthu's suggestion of using the purge option with apt-get/aptitude is also worth trying. And there's the kernel mode setting driver to consider. If it's not set properly, you can get into all kinds of problems. You will also find a /etc/X11/fonts directory that may have been screwed up. If so, you could try renaming it then re-installing X. Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it. There is no xorg.conf filer on the system. I opened a cosole as root and got: computation@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/computation# X -configure Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please advise. Again, thanks in advance. I wrote the above as little too fast. I just logged on to Debian as root and ran X -configure. Hereis the result: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath built-ins EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load dri2 Load dbe Load glx Load dri Load record EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 470 300 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName CMO ModelNameCMC 22 W HorizSync30.0 - 82.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor# [bool] #Option HWcursor# [bool] #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option ShadowFB# [bool] #Option UseFBDev# [bool] #Option Rotate # [str] #Option VideoKey# i #Option FlatPanel # [bool] #Option FPDither# [bool] #Option CrtcNumber # i #Option FPScale # [bool] #Option FPTweak # i #Option DualHead# [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver nv VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] BusID PCI:6:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1
Re: Screen Aspect Ratio
Good time of the day, Stephen. You wrote: I think that I have located the problem. The monitor resolution is set at 1280x1024 by Debian. Also there are only four solutions listed in System Settings/Size and Orientation. I have an OpenSUSE 12.2 installatopn on another hadr drive in the systen and it's resolution is 1680x1050 with eleven additional different resolutions. If You want to play w/ resolutions, then try xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1680x1050 Here You can change VGA w/ LVDS - if it be a laptop. or using xorg.conf (first generate one for Your system, then adjust line Modes in something similar): Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1680x1050 EndSubSection EndSection Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5071c647.e257700a.1027.0...@mx.google.com
Re: Screen Aspect Ratio
On 07/10/12 12:13 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/07/2012 11:58 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/07/2012 11:20 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 04/10/12 06:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Stephen. You wrote: As a result of my stupidity in attempting to modify the screen drivers I have managed to change my display into something really ugly. The aspect ratio is off and the number of available fonts is really limited. (I also have OpenSUSE 12.2 on another HD and the screen is normal, leading me to conclude that the problem lies in Debian) I have switched to Debian and am wondering what display utilities are available? Google hasn't been on any help If You did some config. modifications by a normal user, then You can simply move all the user's home dir. content to another place and then relogin. If did that under root user, then You have to reconfigure those services, for example by simple removal of the config.s to safe place and restart the service, OR using debian package reconfigurator, or download from Internet its options OR reinstall the package having purged it previously. Sthu. The main X configuration file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If you rename this, Debian/X will try to detect your display and adapter. You can also boot to a root prompt and try X -configure to produce an xorg.conf file to experiment with. If you are using proprietary drivers, they each have a configuration utility that should help. Sthu's suggestion of using the purge option with apt-get/aptitude is also worth trying. And there's the kernel mode setting driver to consider. If it's not set properly, you can get into all kinds of problems. You will also find a /etc/X11/fonts directory that may have been screwed up. If so, you could try renaming it then re-installing X. Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it. There is no xorg.conf filer on the system. I opened a cosole as root and got: computation@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/computation# X -configure Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please advise. Again, thanks in advance. I wrote the above as little too fast. I just logged on to Debian as root and ran X -configure. Hereis the result: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath built-ins EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load dri2 Load dbe Load glx Load dri Load record EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse OptionProtocol auto OptionDevice /dev/input/mice OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 470 300# mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName CMO ModelNameCMC 22 W HorizSync30.0 - 82.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 OptionDPMS EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option HWcursor # [bool] #Option NoAccel# [bool] #Option ShadowFB # [bool] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option Rotate # [str] #Option VideoKey # i #Option FlatPanel # [bool] #Option FPDither # [bool] #Option CrtcNumber # i #Option FPScale# [bool] #Option FPTweak# i #Option DualHead # [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver nv VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] BusID PCI:6:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0
Re: Screen Aspect Ratio
Good time of the day, Stephen. You wrote: As a result of my stupidity in attempting to modify the screen drivers I have managed to change my display into something really ugly. The aspect ratio is off and the number of available fonts is really limited. (I also have OpenSUSE 12.2 on another HD and the screen is normal, leading me to conclude that the problem lies in Debian) I have switched to Debian and am wondering what display utilities are available? Google hasn't been on any help If You did some config. modifications by a normal user, then You can simply move all the user's home dir. content to another place and then relogin. If did that under root user, then You have to reconfigure those services, for example by simple removal of the config.s to safe place and restart the service, OR using debian package reconfigurator, or download from Internet its options OR reinstall the package having purged it previously. Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/506d622d.071b700a.20dd.8...@mx.google.com
Screen Aspect Ratio
Debian 6.0.5 64 bit/KDE 4.4.5 As a result of my stupidity in attempting to modify the screen drivers I have managed to change my display into something really ugly. The aspect ratio is off and the number of available fonts is really limited. (I also have OpenSUSE 12.2 on another HD and the screen is normal, leading me to conclude that the problem lies in Debian) I have switched to Debian and am wondering what display utilities are available? Google hasn't been on any help Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/506c93c5.8050...@sbcglobal.net
