OK - Now time for a guilty confession. (Warning - long and boring story!)
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A few months ago I had a hardware failure (unrelated to this - memory fault I think). I have two hard drives, one with Win98 and one with various linux distros - FC5 being my main one. When the PC turned up its toes I was not overly concerned as I already had a (slightly) newer one which I was planning to bring into service anyway - the old one was going to be a home server. The death of the old one just changed my plans slightly.
I simply removed the second (Linux) HD from the dead machine and put it as a second drive in the newer PC.
All was fine. I just re-installed grub on the /dev/hda partition and away I went...
Now - Gnome complained that the Gnome settings differerd from the Xorg settings but offered me the option of accepting theirs - which I think is what I did. Anyhow - It all worked - INCLUDING apparently xv (Mplayer, Realplayer, AdobeReader - which incidentally won't work on FC6 either - etc. etc.) and it is on this same machine that I have now installed FC6 (on a seperate partition).
So the current xorg.conf is the one created by Anaconda as FC6 detected the hardware and installed FC6, and the old one is (ahem) the one created when FC5 was installed in a slightly different machine (cough!) and then amended by Gnome - But it works!
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Phew! Glad to get that off my chest...
Note: Both PCs have on board graphics - no sexy NVidia cards...
The current one is described by system-config-display as a "Silicon Integrated Systems [SIS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter"
whereas the dead one was an Intel i810
The new FC6 Xorg.conf (xv not working):
Code:
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "sis"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
This one from the (working) FC5 partition:
Code:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Compaq P910 Color Monitor"
DisplaySize 350 260
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 108.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 140.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "sis"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
), but to each their own... I would post that in a separate thread though - as you may have noticed, the amount of new people that will look at a thread is inversely proportional to it's length.
