X Server error

Cliff Pankonien cliff at ccpip.com
Wed Nov 16 20:57:17 UTC 2005


Did you add a line in xorg.conf for the particular resolution (in 24 bit 
section)? i have two machines w/ ati cards, i used the ati driver on 
both with no problems...

cliff

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
> 
>>Unfortunately that did not solve the problem.
>>However I've changed: Driver "ati" line to  Driver "vesa" in
>>/etc/X11/Xorg.conf and that seems to partially solve the problem.
>>However the right resolution is not available to use. The screen is
>>14" wide aspect hence I need to use 1280 x 780. 
> 
> 
> I think that's probably 1280x800 or 1200x780 (16:10 ratio), and I'm not
> surprised you can't do it in vesa.  Unfortunately I can't actually help
> with the ATI...




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