On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:22, steef <debian.li...@home.nl> wrote: > > hi list, > > how do i get the magical xserver-xorg installed under lenny on a sata-disk > so far that i can put my screen-resolution from 800x600 into 1024x768,
The xserver-xorg package must be installed already, or you wouldn't have a GUI at all. Sata has nothing to do with the xserver > /var/log tells me the nv driver (nvidia-chip) was correctly installed. > installing the newest nvidia-driver from their site succeeded although this > driver was compiled with gcc 4.1.x and lenny uses standard the 4.3.x > compiler nowadays. yet only a black screen. Please post your xorg.conf file and /var/log/Xorg.0.log > xrandr was/is of no help either: highest pixels stay on 800x600 > > the funny thing is that another (this) hd (ATA) in the same machine with the > the same nvidia-driver(s) from their site makes a screen resolution of > 1024x768 without any trouble possible. Do you mean you have another install of Debian on this machine? If so, please post its xorg.conf file and /var/log/Xorg.0.log as well. > somebody out there with a badly needed sound advice on this? > > i put back the original xorg.conf file into /etc/X11 so i can continue > working on the sata-hd. nevertheless i should love a more appropriate > screen-resolution. > > i never understood the necessity of this modernistic magical behavior of > xserver-xorg. i should love to have back the old days when dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg most times made screen-adaptions possible without problems. > maybe an advice for the highly respected developers?? There may be some bumps on the road, but the new system is much better in the end. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
