Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> Les Klassen Hamm wrote:
>> Oops, should have waited 2 minutes before posting.
>> Just snooping in xorg.conf revealed the comment to run:
>> dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>> My that was simple.
>>
>> Sorry to bother you all.
>> Les...
>
> Funny situation similar to yours. I just rebuilt by desktop and MythTV
> box (this time with a motherboard and CPU that aren't koo-koo for coco
> puffs). My new desktop machine's motherboard is "complex" and has AGP
> at 03:00:00 instead of 01:00:00. Rather than go, "ahh, same ... just
> different AGP slot), the system went and backed up my old config, and
> then made up a random one running at 1280x1024 (which looked terrible on
> a monitor designed for much higher).
>
> I simply deleted the new one, copied the backup to the old name, and
> edited the port reference. Xorg restarted, and all was well again.
A few minutes later again I discovered that I'd lost all my accelerated
video settings. Easily working != working well. This is why I back up
files before letting some automated process mess with them. So I merged
the monitor settings from the new xorg.conf with the correct driver
settings from the old one, and now I think all is well again.
Let's repeat the mantra together: backup backup backup backup
Les...
Received on Tue Nov 7 21:35:14 2006
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