has been tried numerous times with different values and even though it correctly detects my display adapter and my monitor, I still end up with a command line.

Any suggestions?

Perhaps some manual edits from the command line (with pico, I guess) of /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

display adapter according to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg:
display adapter according to lspci:
adapter bus according to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg:
adapter bus according to lspci:
monitor according to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg:
Thanks and best regards from (smoky) Northern California USA,

bezdomny

A couple of things to try.

Somewhere in /var/lib, you may have a copy of the original xorg.conf that was created when you installed Linux. If you have it, you could copy it back to /etc/X11.

Second, in /etc/inittab, look for the default runlevel. If it reads id:3:initdefault:, change it to id:5:initdefault:.

I had similar problems when I was running a test Debian Lenny install. It seems like "dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xorg" does not work like it used to in the past. I managed to reconfigure the card using the nvidia-xconfig tool.

Success! From the command line, deleted xorg.config, used pico to open the oldest backup and save it as "xorg.config", and all was well.

You're right-- dpkg-reconfigure xerver-xorg doesn't seem to work anymore. All the backups I looked at were blank compared to the oldest one that I renamed.

Thank you for your help, reddazz and bigrigdriver!

best regards from Northern California USA,

bezdomny

Quite a surprise considering it should be "xorg.conf" and not "xorg.config"... Unless its a very strange distro...

You are correct-- it was "xorg.conf". By the way, distro is Debian Lenny.

Best regards from Northern California, USA

bezdomny