X11 problems on dell inspiron 5000
Robbo
ml at the-view.eclipse.co.uk
Fri May 27 19:49:38 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:21 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I know this laptop had problems with the current release of Xorg on many
> distributions because of problems with the ati driver. so I tried the
> live cd first. works great! I mean really smashing. enought to get me
> to consider switching from gentoo on my lattops. I got the right
> resolution and good speed.
>
> switching to an installed version, well, it was not so good. I had some
> video but hal bitched at me for some reason and then I never saw an X
> display again.
>
> what is the reason for the differences between live and installed?
Take a look at the X logs (usually /var/log/Xorg.0.log) to see what
driver the live CD is using, etc..
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