> Rather than a configuration of the type you're familiar with, I'll bet > the newer way will work, if not with your custom installed system, at > least with a common recent live media distro as a means of proving.
1) One of the reasons I've been making and running, ahem, Paul's Own Distro(s) since 2004 is I never trusted that other junky system that never could provide a secure, dependable computing platform. With this system I know what my attack surface is, the first step. I don't run any other distros--not even "LIVE" ones, unless I open the case and pull the plug on the HD. 2) Even if it works, so what? I won't run it. I've got 16 years of creating the environment I'm comfortable with. This is my system. Patch it, of course. Maybe upgrade a package, if it fits comfortably I do if needed. Rebuild all of X, and everything here it's going to complain isn't to its liking? Not POSSIBLE. Not don't want to, not possible. 3) These two versions, 32-bit & 64-bit, are "it" for me. I'm going on 76, began programming in 1966 on a computer dumber than your watch. I can't rebuild POD again, my mental acuity is failing, as it generally does at my age. And I'm likewise too old to learn a new distro's way of doing things. I'm willing to accept it's a bug in this server on DVI monitors. What I really need is a patch that would work with 1.18.4, or a very near version of the server that has the same dependencies. That's just about doable, on my best days. > Start by eliminating 20-vesa.conf, 40-samsung.conf and 90-screen.conf > from xorg.conf.d/. Let X startup in the Samsung's native 1280x1024 > mode using the default "modesetting" DDX. Then try as follows: Step 1, rebuild kernel. Would you be surprized that if I use the VESA driver, I'm not using framebuffers? I can't read that small! Nothing I do would benefit from framebuffers. I'd grumble loudly if I had to for panning! -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
