All,
in order to apply suggestions to an xorg.conf, I'm trying to create an initial one - this is not quite as trivial as the man page to xorgcfg suggests (to me, anyway ;-), and the result is a little disappointing. Here's what I did and what happened: - while logged into the GUI (I think KDE, but that's beside the point, I hope), I ran "(unset DISPLAY; pfexec xorgcfg)" - the screen went "hazy". After a few seconds I hit ^-Alt-ESC to reset the screen. an xorg.conf.new was deposited in my $home (I found that later) - I logged into a failsafe terminal, found xorg.conf.new, moved it to /etc/X11, terminated session. - when session restarted, I could recognise the login screen, but not much more - the background image was unrecognisable, there was no text on the buttons. I did manage to select a failsafe terminal for the next login, and there I removed the xorg.conf file, so I could log back in. AFAICT, the information in the xorg.conf is correct (basically, it identifies the ATI adpater I have, and selects the radeonhd driver) Q: what did I do wrong that the "default" xorg.conf isn't any use? HW: lenovo T60p, ATI mobility FireGL 5250. I'm using the internal screen. TIA Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
