On 2011-10-06 17:44 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > > Single user machine running Debian (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae > Graphics card: Nvidia FX 5700 LE > > At present X is setup without any xorg.conf. Its pretty much the > defaults after install of new install medai, other than I've taken > gdm3 out of service, preferring to `startx', and this I do with no > problems. > > However, I wanted to use an old setting from previous OS's on this > same hardware that was set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > I thought I'd generate an xorg.conf and try to edit in my changes.
It might have been easier to just restore the whole file. And http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 might have some additional useful information for you. > I haven't been able to generate xorg.conf so far because > `Xorg -configure' fails without generating a file. > > I've included below, the output from running `Xorg -configure' as it was > written to Xorg.0.log > > Here is just a grep for (EE) error lines, below is the full log. > > grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > [177036.473] (EE) Failed to load module "vmwgfx" (module does not exist, 0) > [177036.473] (EE) vmware: Please ignore the above warnings about not being > able to to load module/driver vmwgfx > [177036.474] (EE) vmware: Unexpected failure while loading the "vmwlegacy" > driver. Giving up. > [177036.474] (EE) Failed to load module "vmware" (a required submodule could > not be loaded, 136110067) Those errors should be harmless. > [177036.522] (EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol I get the same error, but there actually is an xorg.conf.new in the current directory. "Xorg -configure" does not load the dri module, which seems to be the cause for this error. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5wy2hq6....@turtle.gmx.de