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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