Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Scott Ballantyne wrote: Does the black screen show a mouse pointer? No escape including ctrl-alt-f1? No mouse pointer, nothing. The X process will be shutdown with a ctrl-c or ctrl-alt-delete, but the screen remains blank, in "power saver" mode. Nothing I do makes any di

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi Warren, > Does the black screen show a mouse pointer? No escape including > ctrl-alt-f1? No mouse pointer, nothing. The X process will be shutdown with a ctrl-c or ctrl-alt-delete, but the screen remains blank, in "power saver" mode. Nothing I do makes any difference on the monitor. > > T

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hello Brian, > So if you return to the tty that you started X from (maybe by Alt-F1) and > hit Ctrl-C, that doesn't kill your X session? Reboot seems a bit drastic. That's correct. It kills the X session, but the terminal remains dark, and switches to 'lower power' mode. Using ctrl-alt-f1 or al

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d?a Wednesday, September 22, 2010 a las 07:08:24AM -0600, Warren Block escribi?: add: Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" to the Section "ServerLayout"; Please, no. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html Nice. But wi

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread bdsfbsd
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:11:17 -0400, Scott Ballantyne wrote: [snip] Unfortunately I've hit a snag with X. I have an LG "Flatron" W2253, a 5750 graphics card and I have not been able to get them to work with X at all. Following the handbook's instructions: Xorg -config xorg.conf.new with and w

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, September 22, 2010 a las 07:08:24AM -0600, Warren Block escribió: > > add: > > > > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" > > > > to the Section "ServerLayout"; > > Please, no. > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html Nice. But with HALD I could not manage

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Scott Ballantyne wrote: I'm upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 8.1 --- much wonderful work has been done clearly, I'm very impressed and hat's off to the developers. Unfortunately I've hit a snag with X. I have an LG "Flatron" W2253, a 5750 graphics card and I have not been able

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d?a Wednesday, September 22, 2010 a las 08:11:17AM -, Scott Ballantyne escribi?: Hello, I'm upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 8.1 --- much wonderful work has been done clearly, I'm very impressed and hat's off to the developers. Unfortunately I'

Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, September 22, 2010 a las 08:11:17AM -, Scott Ballantyne escribió: > Hello, > > I'm upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 8.1 --- much wonderful work has been > done clearly, I'm very impressed and hat's off to the developers. > > Unfortunately I've hit a snag with X. I have an LG

Widescreen Monitor and X Help please

2010-09-22 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hello, I'm upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 8.1 --- much wonderful work has been done clearly, I'm very impressed and hat's off to the developers. Unfortunately I've hit a snag with X. I have an LG "Flatron" W2253, a 5750 graphics card and I have not been able to get them to work with X at all. Fol