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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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