On 01/13/02 02:18:58 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:03:57PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > On 01/12/02 10:03:03 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > > Edit your XF86config-4 file, look for lines like these (see below). > > > Insert the correct frequency settings for your monitor, and the > > > resolutions you want. BTW, if you specify more than one resolution, > > > you can switch them on-the-run by pressing Ctrl+Alt+'+' or > > > Ctrl+Alt+'-'. > > > > Hi Joachim, > > > > I posted my XF86Config-4 file at http://24.5.8.184/XF86Config-4.html, > > if you'd like to take a look. > > > > In responding to another message in this thread, I discovered that if > > I run X as a normal user, everything is okay, but when I run it as > > root, I get the weirdness. I don't run X as root, so it's probably no > > big deal, but still, I'd like to resolve the problem. X is pulling > > this info from somewhere, if not from the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. > > WAG (wild-assed guess), but this sounds like something I experienced a > few months ago.
Well, just keep WAGging! I normally copy/move files I'm working on to the /root dir for safe-keeping. Whether or not it's good idea or not, I've done it over the last several versions of Debian and X without problems. I never knew that X would grab a config from ~/, interesting. I created a dir and moved them to that and X started up fine! The funny thing is that the resolution X was running at wasn't coming from the config files, but I had a XF86Config and an XF86Config-4 file there, so maybe X became confused and decided to do it's own thing. It's a good thing to know you're not going crazy... Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
