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I'm afraid this is a retrospective posting. The remarks below pertain to
Xubuntu 9.0.4, and the problems which were fixed, arose again upon
upgrading successfully to 9.10, which is no longer available for further
tweaking. Now, I am using an Ubuntu 9.10 installed on windows, just
for kicks-- pretty cool actually-- Kudos to the team for that! i'll get
this display thing worked out. no worries here. this, it's just for the
record stuff. i figure someone might want to know. data:
crunch-n-munch. mmm
Note: I have used the same hardware since using Xubuntu / Ubuntu, but I
haven't installed 'buntu since 8.x-ish. Coming back at 9.04 -- i see the
current display configuration (i believe) is controlled in a /new/
manner, by gdm-- that is, not Xorg.conf, a story which is perhaps better
told in bug #239964 , which indicates a similar frustration with display
resolution, and a so-called missing Xorg.conf.
*please excuse the back-and-forth, convuluted nature of this text. after
much editing, some parts might not quite flow... but I hope you get the
gist of it. ;)
Also, as i am wont to do, this will flow as a narrative. My apologies to
the technical writers. It's for my hoping that perhaps someone in
documentation might get a feel for what the semi-experienced user feels,
as he or she is going through this kind of self-help, investigative,
debugging procedure. (:dagger:)
SPECIFICS:
I feel that bug #239964 does somewhat mirror this issue, at least-- I believe
whatever is at issue here, and in #239964-- might both be attributed to the
same set of changes relevant to user-end display configuration, Xorg.conf, and
gdm (i presume).
Unlike #239964, however-- at least, rhetorically-- my xorg.conf was not
missing. I recall, before any manual editing, the path
/etc/X11/xorg.conf was valid, was not a symlink/link and moreover,
contained data as other Xorg.conf files i've worked with in the past,
but on viewing it, I found the Xorg.conf Display / Screen / Monitor:
MODES subsection-- into which I expected to prepend my text onto an
existing 1024x768 800x600 -- did not exist, nor any resemblance . If
memory serves, the typical Xorg.conf subsections were not at all present
in that default xorg.conf file, for I recall searching for a viable
facsimile from my archives, and on-line, until i found finally found a
sample Xorg.conf. Going from that familiar formatting model, I decided
i'd try hacking it from scratch, and do a reboot.
Meanwhile, I resolved that those too-generic /etc/X11/xorg.conf settings
must have been the reason I could not select my preferred display,
1280x1024 @ 60Hz, as no such modes were made available to the GUI.
Closer examination revealed generic device properties input into the
Section headings, such as (forgive the syntax errors) Monitor0
Configured Monitor, Configured Display, etc.. Only experience
suggested this must be foreshadowing; that these were, perhaps, not the
true settings at all-- but /configured/ elsewhere, via some process
unbeknownst to me at the time.
My first real action was to enter parameters into Xorg.conf which I know
to be more appropriate for my hardware . I rebooted, and viola! The
1280x1024 display i know and love was there! woo hoo!, i thought. but,
sadly, this did not last. whether it was another reboot, or some more
foolish tweaking, i do not recall when i seem to have lost control to
have not regained that display config since. I might best describe my
experience here as FRUSTRATING. it's like-- i /know/ it's supposed to go
that way-- but wait! No, it doesn't! Now go figure out how to do it
/this new way/, which is fine-- but... ugh! where is the GDM editor?
(this is emotion, for those interested-- not constructive... Why can't
i find the d*mn settings for this Gnome Display Manager which has
apparently taken over for Xorg in gathering hardware config details for
setup? Why does my Xorg.conf file seem to do no good?!? , etc., etc.,
and it goes on... (again, i'm still here-- aren't i? it's all part of
trying to help. trying to keep the big U ball a-rollin'. i try. you
try. it's a success, mostly, and that's good. besides, the d*mn Fedora
dvd won't even install on this, my USB drive, so there's one for the Ubu
corner, eh?! hehe)
(:dagger:)
(i.e. When a change to the core setup / desktop config will likely affect the
seasoned user-- it might do the team well to ensure a proper, if as brief as
one line-- perhaps written into the Xorg.conf itself, for example [e.g. Note:
please refer to gnome display manager for all display configs, going forward
from 9.04], maybe the situation would have resolved much more smoothly, as yet,
i suppose i am still having problems, i regret to report. i realize, monkeys
might fly out of my, but there's only so many man-hours, and
