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[Fwd: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:10:08PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
> Thanks for yours and other's input to my irritating problem :)
Did you try dexconf?
Regards,
Andrei
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:10:08PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks for yours and other's input to my irritating problem :)
>>
>
> Did you try dexconf?
>
I did now. It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any
kind, nothing.
Changed nothing. Thanks for suggestion,. but given the above, and
without wishing to cast doubt on the quality of dexconf, something
don't work somewhere!
Man page for it gave no clues either.
Is it just me or was it easier when stuff wasn't dumbed down to
'attract windows users'? I was never very quick, bit when I had to find
out I could - I mean at least the docs were up to date so RTFM was
actually a useful suggestion....if only I could find it (or an uptodate
version)!
> Regards,
> Andrei
>
Mine to,
Martin
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On 09/30/2007 05:00 PM, Martin Waller wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> Did you try dexconf?
> I did now. It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any
> kind, nothing.
> Is it just me or was it easier when stuff wasn't dumbed down to
> 'attract windows users'? I was never very quick, bit when I had to find
> out I could - I mean at least the docs were up to date so RTFM was
> actually a useful suggestion....if only I could find it (or an uptodate
> version)!
I've been stumped before trying to configure X on an old sarge system.
What solved my problem when all else failed was.... to load knoppix,
then extract the needed info from knoppix's X config file. Ugly, but
effective.
Regards,
Ralph
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:12:50PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
>
> I've been stumped before trying to configure X on an old sarge system.
> What solved my problem when all else failed was.... to load knoppix,
> then extract the needed info from knoppix's X config file. Ugly, but
> effective.
>
I never could get X working with Sarge's drivers. I ended up keeping
Woody's X system installed.
Debian doesn't run that well on my old boxes, so I tend to use OpenBSD.
Their Xorg stuff runs just fine on video cards that don't need
closed-source drivers.
Doug.
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:09:31PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
> Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure
> xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me something)
> but with crappo resolution.
>
It looks like its giving you 1024 x 768. What do you think you're
getting? What happens if you cycle through with Ctrl-Alt-Keypad+/- ?
What resolution do you think you should get with 4 MB video ram?
Doug.
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Martin Waller writes:
> Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure
> xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me
> something) but with crappo resolution.
>
> Here's my Xorg.conf: (what dpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg wrote):
>
> # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
> #
> # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
> # values from the debconf database.
---- snipped ---
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "matrox"
> Monitor "DELL D1226H"
> DefaultDepth 24
it says here that you are selecting 24 bit color mode
--- snip more ---
> and here's my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>
>
> X Window System Version 7.1.1
> Release Date: 12 May 2006
> (--) MGA(0): VideoRAM: 4096 kByte
it only detects 4MB of video RAM
the best you can expect is 1024x768 with that amount of RAM, and that
is what it says it is using later. If you have more RAM you may be
able to specify the actual RAM in the video section of Xorg.conf
file. If you actually have only 4MB of RAM and 1600x1200 resolution
then you will have to change the DefaultDepth to either 16 bit or 8
bit color.
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Carl Johnson
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