On Saturday 03 October 2020 12:02:35 andy pugh wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 03:17, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I called mine 10=monitor.conf, had to make Xorg.conf.d, ahh you used > > lowercase, but its not working. I changed the Xorg.conf.d to > > xorg.conf.d but its made no diff, > > You created it as a directory, right? yes. > > I am still looking at the color cycling screen in 10 minutes. > > I have no idea where that comes from, unless it is the default > behaviour of your monitor. For me the base .iso install only ever > blanked the screen.
Hmmm, I never thought of that as I'd not seen it before and that monitor is one of the earliest lcd's extant, well over a decade old now, 4x3 format even. I'll take a walk up the hill and see what I have when the monitor is turned on, but I arrived at what I have which is essentially the same thing by a different route, see my msg back to Dan Ritter on the debian list I copied to the -devel list here. I used apt to remove lightdm and light-locker and installed xdm for a window manager so the x startup is still automatic. My afternoon is shot as I'm to visit my missus and deliver a piano keyboard with bt phones so she can exercise her arthritic fingers without disturbing her roomie at the rest home. That file FWIW, will not be read unless its put in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. Put it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and its ignored, and you will be missing these lines from the Xorg.0.log: [ 24.513] (**) Option "BlankTime" "0" [ 24.513] (**) Option "StandbyTime" "0" [ 24.513] (**) Option "SuspendTime" "0" [ 24.513] (**) Option "OffTime" "0" Well, I forgot to send this before I left to go see my missus. And I have the wierdest thing I've seen on that machines own monitor. Big Debian logo on the signon requestor which I assume is the xdm login. And I can type in and see my login name in the upper user box, which then outlines the lower passwd box, but nothing I type is displayed in that box in any form, so obviously I cannot log in. Ideas? Things I can check from this ssh login? Thanks Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
