I'll try out vesa, and I have a ubuntu xorg.conf, but even when I put that in, it failed :\, i also don't have internet, so that puts anything but, well kde out of the picture for now, but i'll work on that later. so how can I go around using vesa? because nothing seems to working (that is other than my ubuntu os :))
In our Lord Jesus Christ, Louie Cunningham It is for us to become holy here and now, for we cannot be certain whether we will be here this evening. - St. Maximillian Kolbe http://gogoodnews.net/cgi-bin/subscriptions/mail.cgi/list/blessings On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 20:17, Mumia W.. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > On 06/10/2008 05:24 PM, Louis Cunningham wrote: > >> What happens is that the reconfigure will run, and then it will just stop >> abnormally. It is like the program is done, but it is not because I never >> get to set my screen or video card etc. This leaves my xorg.conf looking >> like this: >> >> # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) >> # >> # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, >> using >> # values from the debconf database. >> # [...] >> > > You didn't say what distribution you are using, but I'd guess it's > something later than Debian Etch. > > For Lenny, Sid or Ubuntu Hardy, your xorg.conf looks about right. > Unfortunate design decisions have resulted in "dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg" not doing very much these days. > > It's almost certain that you'll have to do some manual configuration in > xorg.conf. If you have a good xorg.conf from elsewhere (Etch?), you can > probably use it. If that doesn't work, read "man xorg.conf" and see if you > can adjust things to get it working. > > I'm sure that a few of the hundreds of people on this mailing list will be > able to offer you example xorg.conf files if that's what you need. (E-mail > me if you want my Ubuntu xorg.conf.) > > I recommend using the "vesa" driver until you know you've gotten Xorg to > work. What I've done in the past is to install a lightweight window manager > such as fluxbox and to use startx as a regular user--just to test that Xorg > is working: > > $ startx /usr/bin/fluxbox > > Fluxbox is pretty minimalistic; don't expect lots of flash and dash, but > it's very fast and demands so little of the system that, if it fails, it's > almost certainly an Xorg problem--not fluxbox. > > I might also suggest that you install IceWM, but IceWM has such a perfect > balance of features and footprint that you'll probably never go back! That's > what happened to me ;-) > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
