mutexe

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Hiya,
Spent ages trying to get the resolution correct for my own account. I bottled out of using xorgconfig cuz it was asking too many complex questions. I then decided to leave it alone for a bit. I then logged into my root account and noticed that this was at a much nicer res!
I'm not really asking about what i need in my xorg, I'll figure that out. Rather, is my root account using a different xorg to my normal-user account? And if so is there a way of finding out where these 2 different files are??

Many thanks,

mute

Oh, I'm using xfce, and there is NO xorg in my /etc/X11.

dive

No, all accounts should be using the same xorg.conf. It may be that your DE/WM has custom resolutions etc setup.

With no xorg.conf then X is probing the hardware and setting up what it thinks is best.

mutexe

Thanks for the reply mate.
If it is probing the hardware and deciding for itself why are they at differents res's I wonder? I wonder if i should have specified something extra when i added my normal user account using "adduser". Hmmm...

Incidently, if i try and change the res within XFCE, i am immediately logged out of that account. This happens for both root and normal account.

So weird :S

I might try and get some screenshots when i get home from work tonight.

Thanks again for the reply.

GazL

I've found that slackware's xorgsetup takes much of the hard work out of configuring xorg.conf. Far better than xorgconfig. It's surprising how many people aren't aware of this tool. Perhaps it should be included at the end of the install dialogs.

mutexe

I may give that a go.
Perhaps as it's only mentioned briefly in the slackbook under a massive section on xorgconfig? It gave the impression it was a like a "secondary" solution.

GazL

Yes, I think it took me several releases before I stumbled across its existence too.

speccy

Don't know if this would make a difference, but is your (non-root) user in the "video" group?

teek

How about "X -configure" does that work? If you have an nvidia card, you can use (when using nvidia driver) nvidia-xconfig (or something similar).

hitest

Agreed. The tool xorgsetup is wonderful, I've used it for the last several versions of Slackware. It works flawlessly.
In Slackware-current and in Slackware64-current I didn't do anything to set-up X. The hardware probing works perfectly for me, I just type startx and KDE 4.2.4 works out of the box.
I love how Slackware-current now automagically configures X.

mutexe

Whoa! Firstly thanks for all of the replies. I really appreciate it.

@speccy. I followed this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfec...slackware12_p2 to add a new user, so yea i included 'video'. Was that wrong?

Thanks again everyone, I have a few things I can try tonight now

speccy

No, That's correct.

mutexe

I tried "xorgsetup", but i dont think it liked the fact that my xfce was still running. Which is understandable I guess

Is there a way to stop my windows manager, run xorgsetup, then restart it? I thought about changing the run level back so it just boots up to a command line but thought that might be a bit overkill.

Cheers,

mute

GazL

I believe it uses the Auto-probing built into the Xserver so yes, you're going to have to run it while X is down.

If you login as root on a virtual console (by default there's one on CTRL-ALT-F6 I believe), you could then try a 'telinit 3', make a backup of your existing xorg.conf, run xorgsetup and then telinit 4 to take you back.

mutexe

I shall try it tonight when i get home.

Many thanks again mate,

mute

mutexe

Well i ran xorgsetup, and in terms of my screen res it did bugger all Sure it wrote me a xorg, but the resolution is still different between root account and my normal account. (within xfce it's saying the same res, even though it clearly isn't).

I'm at a complete loss now.
Perhaps I could post the xorg.conf file xorgsetup created?

mute