Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 22:45:48 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> Hi again Julien,
>
> and thanks for your assistance.
>
> > Section "Monitor"
> > Identifier "<fill in randr output name here>"
> > Option "Rotate" "left"
> > EndSection
>
> I take it you mean an xorg.conf containing *only* this section will
> suffice; any content in xorg.conf will be merged to what would have
> been used without it.
>
Yes.
> I'm not clear on what "<fill in randr output name here>" entails.
> I have no command named randr. I have one named xrandr; and its man
> page talks about outputs, but it appears to expect me to know the name
> of the output already. How do I query the system to obtain the
> relevant name ? I would previously have found that by looking at the
> name dexconf wrote into the xorg.conf file I can't get it to generate ...
>
> When I run xrandr with no args, it reports: <quote>
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
> DVI-0 unknown connection (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 1360x768 59.8
> 1152x864 60.0
> 1024x768 60.0
> 800x600 60.3
> 640x480 59.9
> DVI-1 connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 367mm x 275mm
> 1600x1200 60.0*+
> 1280x1024 75.0 60.0
> 1152x864 75.0
> 1024x768 75.1 60.0
> 800x600 75.0 60.3
> 640x480 75.0 60.0
> 720x400 70.1
>
> </quote>
>
> Which part of that is the "output" name ?
>
DVI-0 and DVI-1.
> Given that DVI-1 has *+ after one of its modes, I take it it's the one
> that's actually connected to the running X session. However, using
> DVI-1 as the output name above and restarting xdm, I render the new
> box unusable - xdm clearly shut down and tried to restart, but then
> the screen went black and no longer responded to the keyboard -
> fortunately, I can ssh into it to fix that.
>
Do you have an X log for that?
Cheers,
Julien
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