Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-04 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:21:18 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: No. The only way is by hitting the SysRq/PrintScreen key if the AllowEmptyInput is not off, otherwise you have to reboot. Reboot isn't needed to fix things - that's a misbelief from Windows

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-04 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:21:18PM -0400, PJ wrote: I also have tried with the monitor in digital mode as well as in analog... neither works. Do you mean with a VGA and DVI connector? You got it... right! It seems to me that the options for flatpanel

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-04 Thread PJ
Oh, yes... I forgot to mention that although I got it to work... it works only in DVI mode (digital) - on FreeBSD, anyway. This makes me wonder how I could ever set up two of these babies on the same video card. Like for video editing? On XP it only works in DSUB (analog) mode. The DSUB mode just

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:47:47PM -0400, PJ wrote: I have posted to Xorg, but I find this list most reassuring and competent ;-) I have searched the web, followed the instructions in the manual, the man pages and suggestions on the web. Nothing, nada. And I see there is a lot of frustration

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-02 Thread PJ
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:47:47PM -0400, PJ wrote: I have posted to Xorg, but I find this list most reassuring and competent ;-) I have searched the web, followed the instructions in the manual, the man pages and suggestions on the web. Nothing, nada. And I see there

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-02 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:21:18 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: No. The only way is by hitting the SysRq/PrintScreen key if the AllowEmptyInput is not off, otherwise you have to reboot. Reboot isn't needed to fix things - that's a misbelief from Windows land. :-) Simply SSH into the box

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:21:18PM -0400, PJ wrote: I also have tried with the monitor in digital mode as well as in analog... neither works. Do you mean with a VGA and DVI connector? It seems to me that the options for flatpanel must be activated... bin there, done that... Why? And that

Re: anybody manage to get Xorg to work with LG flat panel W2361

2009-11-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:34:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote: Did you ever run X with hal installed? No. X always worked fine for me without hal, so I don't see a compelling reason to use it. I'll keep disabling it as long as I can. But these days digikam can't talk worth a damn to my