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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