Hi again Julien,
and thanks for your assistance.
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "<fill in randr output name here>"
> Option "Rotate" "left"
> EndSection
I take it you mean an xorg.conf containing *only* this section will
suffice; any content in xorg.conf will be merged to what would have
been used without it.
I'm not clear on what "<fill in randr output name here>" entails.
I have no command named randr. I have one named xrandr; and its man
page talks about outputs, but it appears to expect me to know the name
of the output already. How do I query the system to obtain the
relevant name ? I would previously have found that by looking at the
name dexconf wrote into the xorg.conf file I can't get it to generate ...
When I run xrandr with no args, it reports: <quote>
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-0 unknown connection (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1360x768 59.8
1152x864 60.0
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3
640x480 59.9
DVI-1 connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 367mm
x 275mm
1600x1200 60.0*+
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
</quote>
Which part of that is the "output" name ?
Given that DVI-1 has *+ after one of its modes, I take it it's the one
that's actually connected to the running X session. However, using
DVI-1 as the output name above and restarting xdm, I render the new
box unusable - xdm clearly shut down and tried to restart, but then
the screen went black and no longer responded to the keyboard -
fortunately, I can ssh into it to fix that.
(My attempts to start an X session are currently hampered by something
not liking the call to shopt in my ~/.bashrc and the uses of the
"function" built-in in ~/.bash_profile, even though whatever's having
the problem claims SHELL is /bin/bash - and, obviously, I can see no
reason why anything but bash would be reading these files anyway - but
I'll fight with that later. I was able to get xrandr to run before
that hit ...)
Eddy.
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