On 08/10/2007, Rajko M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 08 October 2007 02:57:28 am Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Sax2 helped me get a GUI working, and after installing the ATI driver > > I was able to enable 1680x1050 resolution. However, the settings are > > reset each time I shut down the machine. I must first login to the > > text console as user, then run sax2, and only then can I run startx. > > And it 'forgets" the 1680x1050 resolution each time. There is a lot of > > output to the screen, I don't know if any of it is important, but it's > > too much to write down. If someone could tell me where the appropriate > > log is, I'll send it to the list. Thanks in advance. > > > > Dotan Cohen > > The /var/log/xorg.0.log is the last run log, so you have to save it before > you run sax2 or startx. > > If configuration 'forgets' settings you may also save /etc/xorg.conf before > running sax2 and than again before startx. Compare them. > > -- > Regards, > Rajko.
Thanks. Once I have a known-working xorg.conf, could I just make it read-only, so that it will not get overwritten and the known-good settings will stay? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
