X configuration question

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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On 05/05/2011 03:47 PM, stan wrote:
> I have a fiirly nice (Sun V40) system that has very low resoltuion
> graphics. I looked in /etc/X11, and, much to my shock found no xorg.conf
> file. I re-ran dpk-configure xserver-xorg, but there is still not one, and
> the graphicstill are low res. This is on LTS (10.04). 
> [...]

Given that you know V40 supports higher resolution, you can take a look
at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and check what graphics driver was used. Then
compare to what `lspci` command reports on your hardware. You then can
use a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf (copy from other system, or try `Xorg
- -configure`) to load the needed driver when X starts by adding 'Driver
"yourdriver"' to "Device" section, for example:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Default Device"
        Driver  "fglrx"
EndSection

In fact, this Section might be all that will be needed in your xorg.conf.

Šarūnas

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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