Thanks for the help. I am making a concerted effort to do everything in the terminal and just purchased books to learn in depth.
Here is my video card type. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root Result of second command below: Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024 default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1280x1024 0.0* 1024x768 0.0 800x600 0.0 640x480 0.0 finally when i typed in "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" I got the following [r...@matt ~]# /var/log/Xorg.0.log -bash: /var/log/Xorg.0.log: Permission denied Thanks again for the help it is much appreciated Matt On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Matt, first of all, welcome to the Linux community! :-) > > On Monday 18 January 2010 17:52:56 Matt Smith wrote: > > this is the message i get when trying to run system-config-display after > > installing it > > It is a good idea not to rely on GUI tools, especially when troubleshooting > something. > > This is how I would proceed --- plug in all monitors you have, open a > terminal > (xterm, konsole, shell, any such will do), and type: > > lspci | grep VGA > > (and press the enter/return key) to find out exactly what video hardware is > being detected. Feel free to copy&paste the above command into a terminal, > if > you don't feel like typing. Then copy&paste the output of that when > replying > here. > > Second, type > > xrandr > > into the terminal, and copy&paste that output also into a reply. > > Once we have that information, we can tell you if any drivers need to be > installed and how, and what to do to enable both monitors. Also, feel free > to > attach the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to the message --- it might look > cryptic to > you at first, but it is an ultimate information source about what is going > on > with your display. It contains a lot of useful info (once you get > accustomed > to reading it). > > HTH, :-) > Marko > > P.S. Since you are a newcomer to Linux, keep in mind that CLI (command line > interface) terminals and shells are a Good Thing --- they can save a lot of > time and grief, and are ultimately used when all GUI's fail... :-) The > faster > you learn to use the terminal (or at least get comfortable with the idea of > using it) the easier you will learn Linux. And soon enough you will also > find > out that terminal is way more powerful than any GUI. This is a big change > of > perspective compared to Windows (where the MS-DOS prompt is useful only to > a > small minority of know-how people), and one of the first things newcomers > typically stumble upon. ;-) > >
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