On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My apologies Burkhard, I confused your email with another I am also > helping out with. Please ignore the response I just posted and let me > try again. Thank-you. > >> [...] > > Well, to begin with you are using the VESA driver, which is rarely > useful. What is your video card actually? A better driver may give you > a better selection of video modes. Have you tried deleting your > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (or at least temporarily renaming it) and > restart Xorg without it. Looking at the whole log file from that > attempt will probably be very enlightening. > > In the meantime, look further into your current Xorg.0.log file. The > EDID stuff is *very* noticeable down near the end of the initialization > and setup. (Search for EDID). You should see both a HEX dump of it, > and Xorg's interpretation of it, if it is working right. I find it hard > to believe that a Flat Panel Display doesn't return *any* EDID > information upon a query. But, I could be wrong, and frequently am. > > What is your video card? "lspci | grep VGA" should give you some > indication of what hardware is installed. Based on that response, we > can determine if VESA is the right video driver for you (not likely > based on what you've said so far). It may be the case that you need to > install a better xorg_x11_drv_xxxxxx driver for your video card. > (Gawd, if it would only be that simple!) > >> Does this help to clarify? >> I can attach the whole thing if that's better. > > The whole thing is always better, as you won't delete parts that people > may want to look at. It is also useful to see what EErrors Xorg may > have found during initialization. > >> Burkhard > > -- > Kevin J. Cummings > kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) > -- Ok, here again: lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter And attached the Xorg.0.log file after I renamed xorg.conf and rebooted. Hope this allows you to see the origin of the problem, and many thanks for taking time & effort. Burkhard
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