On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:54:25PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:04:31PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > >>> can you cycle through the resolutions using > >>> ctrl-alt-keypad-plus/minus? > >> No, doesn't work.Nothing changes. > > > > really?! how about ctrl-alt-backspace to exit X? does that work? and > > confirm, this is the plus or minus key on the number keypad to the > > right... > > Yup, ctrl-alt-+ or - does nothing - ctrl-alt-bs kills the > server..weird eh? > indeed > > > > >>> what video card? I think some of the cards have been moved up to the > >>> i9?? driver. > >> On board Intel graphics 865G > > > > it looks like the xserver-xorg-video-i810 package is in > > transition. review the available drivers and see if there is one > > called 'intel' and try that maybe? the new package is called > > xserver-xorg-video-intel. > > > >>> what about using the vesa driver, how does it do? > >>> > >> Won't run with Vesa for some reason. > > > > huh. that's weird. what errors? > > Dozens, far too many to show here, but the server does not like Vesa I > can tell you that! does this (as root) give a more manageable output: egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log it should spew out just the errors and warnings lines (blatantly stolen from Florian Kuzler's bag of tricks ;) > > > >> > >> I just discovered I can switch it to 1280x960 using xrandr, but it > >> insists on booting up in 1024x768. > > > Further experiments with xrandr. Run to query available modes it > spit out a list including 1280x1024. Run this way to set that mode: > xrandr -s 1280x1024 and nothing happens. Run it again to query and that > mode is missing. > This sounds like a BUG. Never had these kind of problems before the last > update. > > > > can you post us the xorg log? > > > > Much too big to attach (98k!!!) Is there a public server I can UL it to ? well, you've probably got multiple sessions in there. move the current one aside, and try again to get a fresh log with just one attempt in it and then use the egrep above to pare it down. > > > > and your xorg.conf > looks hunky dory to me. A
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