On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did that and screwed everything. I now get no X at all. I think it may > be to do with the nvidia GeForce 6200. The site says that it is > supported in nvidia-glx-new but after installing I have screwed > everything. I guess I will try a vesa driver and make a backup of her > home directory and then reinstall. > > Heracles > > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Heracles"> > > > >> If you change monitors on a Ubuntu 7.04 machine do you have to reinstall > >> to get the system to use it or is there a simpler way? > > > > This is long-term suckage. The easiest way to do it now is plug in your > > new monitor and (probably at a console) run: > > > > dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high xserver-xorg > > > > When xorg.conf is banished forever (probably within a couple of upstream > > cycles, such that you only need it if you have a really odd config), it > > is unlikely that this will continue to be a problem. Do it again! I've had it work lots eg asus m2n?-vmx asus m2npv-vm etc. Did you check nvidia? vs nv or vesa Is your monitor properley interrogated? ensure decent hsync and vsync options James
PS re-installing will not help you! vesa driver is installed AND one of my monitors (Viewmaster 1280x1024 LCD) installs 640x480 and its nearly impossible to install blind! Toolbar to side and some guesses! YMMV -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
