On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:08 am, peterslinuxbox@ntlworld.com wrote:
Wayne, Ricky and Graham, Thank you all very much. Your suggestions, Graham, did the trick. Although I could only get it to work - at the moment! - at 1024 x 768, it is a great improvement. I discovered that the graphics card was set as a generic card as well, so I changed that (although it didn't have my exact card). I have found out a lot from this exercise. I will probe deeper when I have a bit more time. I also changed one or two other things after this worked, so I will be going back there a bit more. I will also look for and read through the XF86 config file as soon as I can. When in XP I always edit the registry manually, so I'll be doing a lot of experimenting in time. Hope I don't mess things up too much!! Still, that's what learning is all about.
A couple of tips for messing about with X and things like screen resolutions that you may already have learnt.
If you are messing about with the configuration files for X windows then you can restart the windowing system without rebooting the whole machine by issuing either a CTRL-ALT-Backspace or by switching the runlevel.
To switch Runlevels issue (as root) an init 3 from the console to stop the windowing system and run in Console mode. and a init 5 to start the windowing system again.
I only mention this as it's not always that obvious when comming from the world of windows that you can restart the GUI without rebooting.
Another thing is that if you are planning a good session of mucking about then take a copy of the /etc folder while the machine is still working. It's pretty hard to break thing to the point that you can't get the system to restart somehow and with a copy of your working configuration you can save yourself the bother of reinstallation.