Hoary installed 2X - Laptop Display is too small after installation

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Sun Mar 13 19:52:09 UTC 2005


> I did use 'ddcprobe' 

Ah, that's what I feared... it gives info about the video card but fails
to interrogate the monitor.. :-/

> Just for kicks I did try to see what Hoary's
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 looked like.
> In 'gedit' it came up blank.  The XF86Config-4 file
> doesn't exit in the X11 directory at all. 

This is the name of the file in Warty. In HOary, this same file is named
"xorg.conf".

> So, I am at a loss now.  I'd hate to have to uninstall
> Hoary and reinstall Warty so I can get the proper
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Sadly I can't see a better solution (hopefully someone else will) :o(
unless you can find the technical documentation for your monitor,
somewhere else (printed material or on the web)

> Obviously I'm a bit of noob too - how does one restart
> 'X'?  Reboot? Restart Ubuntu? From the command line?

You can restart it by pressing "Alt + Control + BackSpace", or just
plain reboot, of course.

--
Vince





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