On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 14:13:36 +0100, lubo...@tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
> Dear colleagues, > > we have problems to configure X-server manually on Debian-squeeze. > > Starting the xserver without a manually placed /etx/X11/xorg.conf the system > works fine but the screen resolution cannot be put to maximum values within > a the running x-session (gdm3). The video card seems to be installed > properly. > > We created a sample xorg.conf with "X -configure" and placed it into > /etc/X11. The we modified it the following way: > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "LG" > ModelName "Flatron" > HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 > Modeline "1024x768@75" 85.52 1024 1056 1376 1408 768 782 792 807 > EndSection > > taking the specs from the vendors manual. The problem now is that > the xserver won't start and we have black screen. > What if you put *just* the above section in xorg.conf, instead of using X -configure? X -configure is broken more often than not. Cheers, Julien _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com