[XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-22 Thread Alan Pike
Being realtively new to Linux I recently messed up the nice configration job that the Tech guys at RackSaver put together for me in such a short notice. Seriously. I recently tried to change my monitor settigns using x86config and now after logging off and out of my session I get a fatal X serv

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-22 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
On Monday 22 March 2004 20:52, Alan Pike wrote: > (EE) ATI(0): No Display subsection in Screen section "Screen0" for > depth/fbbpp 8/8 Looks like you deleted part of your Screen section (the Display subsection to be precise). I'll give you mine to give you an idea of what one might look like (do

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-22 Thread Alan Pike
r Hulshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:17:46 +0100 On Monday 22 March 2004 20:52, Alan Pike wrote: > (EE) ATI(0): No Display subsection in Screen section "Screen0" for >

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:38:53PM -0500, Alan Pike wrote: > This seems to be exactly my problem. A few minutes tinkering with the config > file and using your email as a guide helped out tremendously. Now for some > reason I have to 'startx' at login and have lost my usual gnome login > screen.

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-22 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 03:59, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:38:53PM -0500, Alan Pike wrote: > > This seems to be exactly my problem. A few minutes tinkering with the > > config file and using your email as a guide helped out tremendously. Now > > for some reason I have to 's

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-23 Thread Alan Pike
> I'm betting you (or your init) switched your current runlevel (or your > initdefault) from 5 to 3. Sounds like a plausible explanation. Alan, you might want to take a look at /etc/inittab, and look at a line like this: id:5:initdefault: You'll want the default to be 5 (like it is in the line abov

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-23 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 02:32, Alan Pike wrote: > > > I'm betting you (or your init) switched your current runlevel (or your > > > initdefault) from 5 to 3. > >Sounds like a plausible explanation. Alan, you might want to take a look > >at /etc/inittab, and look at a line like this: > >id:5:initd

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-24 Thread Alan Pike
Sure, or just try (as root) init 5. If it still doesn't come up with X then, you might want to have a look at your /etc/init.d/rc5.d or /etc/rc5.d directory to see if X is even started there. You can check your currently runlevel by typing runlevel as root. Pieter: A reboot solved my startx as def

Re: [XFree86] Xconfigurator help

2004-03-24 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:15:36AM -0500, Alan Pike wrote: > >Sure, or just try (as root) init 5. If it still doesn't come up with X > >then, > >you might want to have a look at your /etc/init.d/rc5.d or /etc/rc5.d > >directory to see if X is even started there. You can check your currently > >run