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Old 03-27-2012, 12:56 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by TobiSGD View Post
When you have booted to the command-line just use
Code:
X -configure
to generate a template file named xorg.conf.new in the current directory. That file should almost be appropriate for that machine, just do the needed edits and copy it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. After that it should work.
When I ran that, it gave me this. "[something]al server error"
"[something]ught signal 7 (Bus error). Server aborting"

Plus a bunch of other stuff. I get no xorg.conf.new in the directory. The [something]'s are parts I can't read due to the skewed display.
 
Old 03-27-2012, 01:33 PM   #17
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Sorry, that worked for me, also i had no skewed display, so I can't help with that.
 
  


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