On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:03:57PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 01/12/02 10:03:03 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > Edit your XF86config-4 file, look for lines like these (see below). > > Insert the correct frequency settings for your monitor, and the > > resolutions you want. BTW, if you specify more than one resolution, > > you can switch them on-the-run by pressing Ctrl+Alt+'+' or > > Ctrl+Alt+'-'. > > Hi Joachim, > > I posted my XF86Config-4 file at http://24.5.8.184/XF86Config-4.html, > if you'd like to take a look. > > In responding to another message in this thread, I discovered that if > I run X as a normal user, everything is okay, but when I run it as > root, I get the weirdness. I don't run X as root, so it's probably no > big deal, but still, I'd like to resolve the problem. X is pulling > this info from somewhere, if not from the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. WAG (wild-assed guess), but this sounds like something I experienced a few months ago. Check the root homedir (/root) and see if there's an XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file there. If memory serves I once spent an evening trying to apply changes to the XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11 but was thwarted by the presence of the XF86Config-4 file in /root, which apparently was being used when I did 'startx' as root. When I removed the rogue version from /root, all was well. 'find / -name XF86Config\*' might be worth a try as well. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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