On Friday 27 May 2005 02:37, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Friday 27 May 2005 05:30, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Friday 27 May 2005 00:17, B. Stia wrote:
On Thursday 26 May 2005 22:50, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Has anyone else had a problem with X getting confused between the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/XF86Config? I just installed a new NVidia GeForce 6800 GT. The setup was an adventure to say the least. I kept having problems where X would start with one configuration on boot, and another when it was restarted. I finally deleted the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand, to put the correct modeline at the top of the list, and give it the correct DisplaySize values.
Anyone else had these problems? --
Steven,
Yes and no. This started to happen when I changed my monitor. On bootup some times I get a screen fom the bios that says I did not pass a parameter. The booting screen then boots using much larger fonts than normally. Once booted it appears ??? to be normal. Not sure but I seem to be getting minor different graphical changes.
I do know that the xorg.conf file has not been touched with the monitor change.(Still shows the old monitor and dated before the change) The XF86Conf. file shows the new settings. The nvidia card settings are also different (0X0342 vs. GEForce 5700) I have been told that Yast is supposed to write to the xorg file with a link to XF86Conf. This apparently is not happening. No idea which config is being called; must be XF86.
So maybe the problem is the same?? Don't know. Seems likely, and don't know what to do about it.
Bob S.
BTW 9.2 and KDE 3.4
As root, mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf-$(date +%F-%H-%M-%S). don't keep it in /root as xorg.conf. I can't say what xorg with do with that, but XFree86 will use the XF86Config in the current directory. That can be quite deceptive. I would suggest also moving the XF86Config out of the way, and rerunning SaX2. I don't know if it makes a difference whether it's run through YaST or from the commandline. After you're finished setting it up, verify what's actually in /etc/X11. I had lots of strange things happening while I was trying to untangle this mess. It may be worth it to go into the runlevel tool and set the system to boot into runlevel 3 before you start. It may be worth rebooting before your run SaX2. -- Regards, Steven
Which version it uses ie XF86Config or xorg.conf depends on the version of X you are running if you are running the older version the one with the NON GPL friendly license to it then it uses XF86Config . the newer and friendly version uses xorg.conf and XF86 Config should be a link to xorg.conf
Yes, I did not mention the part about there originally being a symlink. But SaX2 did not maintain that symlink. This is my current setup: # note there is no xorg.conf find /etc/X11 -type f -maxdepth 1 /etc/X11/qtrc /etc/X11/Xresources /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/qt_gtk_fnt2fntrc /etc/X11/XF86Config.YaST2save /etc/X11/XF86Config.saxsave /etc/X11/Xmodmap.remote /etc/X11/qtrc.rpmsave /etc/X11/XF86Config-2005-05-26-20-30-19 /etc/X11/qt_plugins_3.3rc /etc/X11/.qt_plugins_3.1rc.lock /etc/X11/qtrc-2004-08-27-02-40-19 /etc/X11/Xmodmap /etc/X11/CardModules.addon /etc/X11/.qtrc.lock /etc/X11/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock /etc/X11/Xresources.rpmsave /etc/X11/.qt_plugins_3.2rc.lock /etc/X11/kstylerc /etc/X11/.kstylerc.lock rpm -qa | grep xorg xorg-x11-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-fonts-syriac-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-Mesa-devel-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-doc-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-Mesa-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-Mesa-devel-static-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.8.2-35.1 xorg-x11-driver-options-6.8.2-35.1 Clearly, xorg can and does use either the XF86Config or the xorg.conf. It gets mixed up when both are in /etc/X11. -- Regards, Steven