On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 22:45:48 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > 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. > Yes.
> 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 ? > DVI-0 and DVI-1. > 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. > Do you have an X log for that? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110929204954.gq24...@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr
