Re: [Hampshire] xorg.conf problems in new Etch install

On 10/12/07, Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 18:27 +0100, HantsLUG Mail wrote:
> > X is insisting on running at 640x420 and 60Hz. My monitor optimally
> > requires 1280x1024 @ 75 Hz. I have tried to edit xorg.conf, but can
> > see nothing wrong with it, apart from a wrong attribution of screen -
> > but teh settings look all right. Here below are the relevant lines.
> > Please, can anyone suggest a fix? I already know that K(U)buntu
> > misrecognises the screen inthe same way. Obviously I could reinstall
> > Libranet 3 and update it ot Sarge again, but that doesn't seem
> > sensible at this stage. But all suggestions sympathetically listened
> > to.
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> Get rid of all the resolutions other than the one you want to run at
> from xorg.conf?



Thanks for that, Al.

I tried it immediately. I deleted (or, in some cases, commented out)
everything other than the depth and resolution I wanted (which was, after
all, already the default).

Gnome and KDE still determinedly display at 60Hz and 640x480. :-(

Lisi


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