Re: Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 23:33:32 -0800, S D wrote:
> On Thu, 2/19/09, Sven Joachim wrote:
[...]
>> If that doesn't work, "Xorg -configure"should give you a starting
>> point for xorg.conf. Further customizing has to be done with your
>> favorite text editor.
[...]
> I'm trying to resolve a specific issue that appeared after upgrade
> from etch to lenny, see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515840.
>
> In etch the video card was configured using dpkg-reconfigure and it
> was working marvelously. In lenny it's all screwed up and
> dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to reconfigure the video card. It's
> simply not clear for what needs to be customized to get it working.
The "new way" to configure resolution, multiple heads, etc. is via
RandR:
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
There are several graphical tools for configuring RandR in the Debian
archives, see "apt-cache search randr".
If your driver/hardware combination does not support the RandR extension
then you can add the old-fashioned "Modes" lines to your xorg.conf
yourself, following Sven's hint on how to get started. (Proprietary
drivers often have a vendor-specific tool for configuration.)
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