Hi Fritz, Hurray!! Glad you found the right xorg.conf... it is kinda like finding buried treasure or winning a marathon when you finally get something major hacked into working order :) Congratulations!!
On 08/30/2014 07:58 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > @Israel: > > After some time spent fiddling around trying to do it the hard way, I > decided to take your suggestion and just "borrow" the xorg.conf file > from be.linux . . . and seem to have "gotten lucky" on my first choice > . . . so 14.04 is working better on the iBook. > > Only pointers . .. the "sudo mv ~/Downloads/filename" gambit did not > work . . . found a thread online on the wget material . . . using > first the "sudo wget" line followed by "sudo mv ibook7.txt > /etc/X11/xorg.conf" . . . and then full tilt boogie "sudo reboot" . . > . got the lightdm login window working. Doing the TTY "sudo lightdm > restart" got me into a "twilight zone" of weirdness . . . the reboot > brought seemingly most of the GUI back. Now I could read all of the > "14.04 has experienced a problem" error windows that have been opening > every time I've logged in in the last week, etc. > > Haven't tested "suspend" yet . . . that will be the deal maker or > breaker for staying with 14.04 or falling back to 12.04 . . . . > > Thanks for the helpful suggestions . . . "easy is good." > > F/ e.e.p. > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Israel <israeld...@gmail.com > <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Hi Fritz, > Just find the one that is closest and try it out. You can try it > without rebooting. If that one works, YAY!! > If it doesn't try another one that is close. > You can always duckduckgo for any other leads on your specific model. > > I simple copied the downloaded i.e. > > sudo mv ~/Downloads/*filename*.txt /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > where *filename* is the actual name of the file you download > Then go to your TTY and restart lightdm > > sudo lightdm restart > > or you can stop it and then start it (what I typed in the first > e-mail) > > Look to see if any of those files have the same resolution, or > look for a model that has the same graphics card. > > > Regards > > -- Regards
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