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Re: /tmp/xerrors



Geoff:

I am in the US, so it is still not yet Shabbat (it is Friday morning here
in NYC).  I know I probably won't hear from you until Sunday.  Out of all
the good advice I have gotten from you all, I finally took yours, which was
the simplest.  I modified XF86Config in the following way:

> You can try the following, it may be enough:

> Edit "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config"

> Look for the line without a # in front of it:

>	HorizSync  ......

> Change it to:

> 	HorizSync   27-95

I changed it to the specs for my monitor, 30 - 70

> Then look for (without a #) :

>	VertRefresh .....

> Change it to: 

>	VertRefresh 50-160

I changed it to 50 - 120

> Now, look for the Modes line in the section "Screen". There may be
several
> and it may take some time to figure out which one is being used. It
depends
> upon your Xserver.

> You will see something like:

>	 Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"

> change it to include the modes that you want, I use:

> 	 Modes       "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" 

> "640x480"

I changed it to

	Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

X started just fine.  Thank you.

Other problems:

1) Even though I made these changes and I am no longer stuck with "640x480"
I can't use CTRL-ALT-plus/minus to toggle between modes.  Do you or anyone
else know what could be the problem?

2) Oded Arbel suggested using XF86Setup to modify the XF86Config file. 
(BTW, Oded: I used "find / -name "<filename>" -print with "-print" because
the first place that I learned about that command used that switch and I
figured I needed to use that when I did that command.  Now that you asked
me about it I saw that I didn't need to use it.  Thanks.  Also, in answer
to your question, my version of XFree86 is 3.3.3.1-49

I found the XF86Setup rpm on my CD-ROM and installed it.  I also downloaded
XVG16.tgz.  In fact, I downloaded two copies from ftp.xfree86.org.  One was
in the directory
ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/Linux-ix86-libc5/Servers and
the other was in the directory
ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers. 
They are of different sizes.  Which one should I install, and where should
I install it?

I tried running XF86Setup without installing this and got the following
message:

"Not all of the X Keyboard extension programs and configuration files are
installed.  The file 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/README is missing."

What can I do to fix this?  Is it just a simple matter of installing that
XVG16.tgz?

3) While we are at it, I thought I might ask about an old problem.  I can
use Shift-PageUp to scroll up.  But once I go into either KDE or Gnome and
exit back to the command prompt, I can't use this to scroll up beyond the
point where I exited from KDE or Gnome.  Any thoughts on this?

Thanks to everyone for all your help and thanks in advance for these
things,
Jonathan Daniel
jalexd@escape.com

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