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Originally Posted by adamk75
So you at least installed part of the fglrx driver :-)
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Well, yes, but I installed that because I was stuck at 640x480 ... I wasn't stuck at 640x480 because I installed that.
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Originally Posted by adamk75
In any case, I think we're pretty close to getting everything working properly for you.
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Closer than "pretty close" even ... so here's what I did:
- Tried to run Xorg --configure with X still running. That didn't work.
- Logged out of X and tried to run it then. Still didn't work.
- Found the PID for X and killed it. That didn't work, because gdm just respawned it.
- Killed gdm. That worked. Ran Xorg --configure, which created ~/root/xorg.conf.new (attached, renamed to .txt to keep the attachment manager happy.
- Couldn't figure out how to start gdm back up, so I just rebooted.
- Started back up in X with 1600x1200 resoultion.
So ... it's fixed, I guess? I didn't actually do anything, that I can see. There's still no xorg.conf in /etc/X11. But it works now.
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Originally Posted by rjcooks
(1) GET MORE RAM. 370MB is ridiculous for any GUI setup. ...
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In short, you are trying to put a square peg into a round hole. The solution is to either make the hole bigger or get a round peg.
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I must respectfully disagree. This system was running X on Gentoo for at least six years. I don't
think this can work. I don't have good evidence that this can work in
theory. I
know it can work, because it
did work for several years. 1Gb of RAM? The day Linux requires as much RAM as a Windoze workstation, I'll stop using it.
Now, you've got an excellent point about IceWM tho, and that's going to be my next big focus once I get a few more things working. Ice is what I ran under Gentoo, and, LIS, it runs pretty well, even doing things like running Firefox, Gimp, and several terminals simultaneously.
