Giulio Troccoli wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:54 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
If you aren't using X (graphical boot or graphical login or startx from
command line), then I think the display is handled by the kernel and
there is no file containing the settings.
In X, definitions are in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
The xorg.conf doesn't say much, it's all the default, which should work
I would think?
Frequently not. Where it says Videocard0 try replacing "Intel" with
"i810" or "vesa" instead. I have an install which persists in setting
that value to accelerated ATI, to "Intel" may be wrong, and "vesa" will
almost certainly work.
The rhgb option in /etc/grub.conf runs the graphical boot. Graphical
login is controlled by /etc/inittab, in particular, the line
id:5:initdefault:
If you change the 5 to 3 on that line, you will boot to command-line
mode. Log in and run startx. You can shift back to your login console
with <ctrl>-<alt>-<F1>. See if there are any error reports on the
console. Also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.setup.log
to see if there are errors.
I now boot at run level 3. When I type startx the screen goes black and
when I press <ctrl><alt><f1> I don't go back to the login but instead I
get a lot of error messages which can provide a clue on what is going
wrong. Is there a way I can capture those messages? Are they maybe put
in a file?
Giulio
P.S. I attach the Xorg.conf file
------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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