| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 25 Mar 2002 06:08:41 -0500 |
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:47:35AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: > Nothing. I get the same X server output I always got with with my old > distro. Except that this X doesn't run. Rubbish. If X doesn't run it *always* prints an error message. There must be something about unsupported rates or some such. (I guess it's *possible* that something is magically killing X after the fact, but I really doubt it.) Could I see the X output? Are you doing startx or trying to run xdm? In the latter case, you might look for an Xsession.errors file under /usr/X11R6 somewhere. > That'll edit the config file, all right. Will it tell me things like > modelines,resolutions, etc, to put INTO the file? > > No, I didn't think so. No, but the documentation for your monitor and video card are supposed to tell you that. Don't you have those? Don't you know what the various numbers in a Modeline mean? > As it happened, I just blew it all away, and reinstalled the > potato-based one from the CD. This is why I never used Debian on a > day-to-day basis - too much fighting with it. I fight computers all day > at work; I prefer to come home and minimize the fighting. Um... if you don't want to fight with it, then stop trying to do non-standard things. :^> You should be completely able to do what you want, but it's going to take a bit of effort on your part. Unix helps them what helps themselves. And Linux too. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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