Re: Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)
Janjs Jangori wrote:
Many thanks Kent.
The magic number PCI:1:0:0 worked!!!. For the first time I saw the
GENOME desktop on my own PC :-). However, the writings are blurred and
the mouse pointer is big, but at least I can click and something
happens. Oh! my God I have a lot of fiddling to do.
I guess I can edit /etc/x11/xf86config-4 to change the settings until
i get a good display.
If you directly edit XF86Config-4, it'll no longer be managed by debconf
(so that "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" will no longer work). If I
were you, I'd avoid editing the file directly unless you have to, and
instead use the dpkg-reconfigure tool to modify your X settings.
I ran mv /etc/rc2.d/s99xdm /etc/rc2.d/_s99xdm so that the GUI(GENOME)
login will not come because I wanted to edit the /etc/x11/xf86config-4
to try different settings, but now whenever I login it's my blurred
screen that comes.
There are four common login managers: xdm, gdm, wdm, and kdm. Even
though you disabled xdm, it may be that one of the other three is still
starting.
You can press Ctrl-Alt-F2 from your "blurred screen" and get to a text
console, and from there shut down whatever dm with "/etc/init.d/[?]dm
stop". Then you can run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to
reconfigure your X settings (if you haven't already manually edited
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, in which case you can just continue manually
editing the file), then either restart your dm with the "start" instead
of "stop" option, or just run "startx".
Don't forget that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should kill X when you're in X.
That might come in handy.
--
Kent
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