Ron Johnson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/08 01:48, Thierry Chatelet wrote: [snip]Look at man xorgXorg -configure should give you a new xorg.conf that you can modify yourself if needed.Check your calendar. This is 2008, not 1998. And this is Debian, not Slackware. We use dpkg-reconfigure. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIMTM7S9HxQb37XmcRAvBgAKCuwUfjwiG28GTpABY/g+1pe2htmQCfZINA NdxX4veMq0eR/xgImphFukQ= =ti4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Ron,one of the few times I have to disagree with you: Yes this is 2008 and we are running Debian, however, Xorg -configure will still work.
"-configureWhen this option is specified, the Xorg server loads all video driver modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out an initial xorg.conf(5) file based on what was detected. This option currently has some problems on some platforms, but in most cases it is a good way to bootstrap the configuration process. This option is only available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real-uid 0)."
IIRC it will drop a test config into the PWD you then can test out with startx -config /path/to/file/just/written to test (though I am not sure about the startx option, it might be something all together different). I have had to do this a few times to get X configured, all though not in about two years.
FWIW, I no longer get asked about the monitor selection after the first time I run dpkg-reconfigure xorg.conf either.
-- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser