[Techtalk] X fried

[Maria McKinley]

Hi Mike,

Brilliant! This gave me an idea. I looked in /etc and found the old 
config file, and noticed that it had been set up for a different 
monitor. So, apparently X had been set up for one monitor, and when we 
moved all the computers the monitors got mixed up. The old config 
(Xfree86) had no problem with the different monitor, but after I 
upgraded, Xorg did have problems with the new monitor for some unknown 
reason. So I switched the monitors back, and suddenly the resolution is 
correct again. Strange, but it is working again! Yeah!

cheers,
maria

Mike wrote:
> Usually I find this when I change the drivers for the monitor it fixes
> that for me. I mean if you have a lcd versus a general crt? Make sense? if
> you have some obscure monitor you can use a custom lcd or custom crt. I
> think you can find it in Xorg.conf but you should be able to find it in
> control center in not.
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just made a big mistake, and tried to upgrade X on a machine that has
>> not been upgraded in a long time. It has been rather a mess, but finally
>> got Xorg working. But, I can't seem to be able to change the screen
>> resolution. No matter what resolution I put in xorg.conf, it doesn't
>> change the resolution. Any ideas?
>>
>> thanks,
>> maria
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