Re: reconfigure X

2009-07-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:12:17AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I need to reconfigure X, because I have switched to a newer, larger monitor. I google for info and find "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" but when I run this (as root) I get only questions

Re: reconfigure X

2009-07-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:12:17AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I need to reconfigure X, because I have switched to a newer, larger > monitor. I google for info and find > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" > > but when I run this (as root) I get only questions abou

Re: reconfigure X

2009-07-05 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-07-05, Paul E Condon wrote: > I need to reconfigure X, because I have switched to a newer, larger > monitor. I google for info and find > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" > > but when I run this (as root) I get only questions about the keyboard > and noth

reconfigure X

2009-07-05 Thread Paul E Condon
I need to reconfigure X, because I have switched to a newer, larger monitor. I google for info and find "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" but when I run this (as root) I get only questions about the keyboard and nothing about the monitor (or video care). I am running Lenny, installe

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

2007-03-28 Thread macondo
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Default User wrote: How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? As root, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 hth raju Do as raju says and choose the 'sis' driver in the video section. --

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change [SOLVED]

2007-03-19 Thread Default User
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 21:19 -0500, Default User wrote: > Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) > and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system > starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message > and asking if I want t

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

2007-03-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Default User wrote: > >> How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't >> want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? >> > > As root, try > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Very likely, you would like to read the header of /etc/X11/XF86Conf

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

2007-03-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Default User wrote: > How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't > want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? > As root, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspo

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

2007-03-18 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:19:00PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) > and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system > starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message > and asking if I

how to reconfigure X after video card change

2007-03-18 Thread Default User
Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message and asking if I want to see the details. The new video card seems okay, since I can