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Sorry it doesnt look like i can post my xorg.conf using runlevel 3. Any ideas on how I can fix my xorg.conf? like one that i can download off a website and use? Are there any special portions of it?
Last edited by scriptn00b; 09-17-2005 at 12:36 PM.
I did 'Xorg -configure' and it created "/root/xorg.conf.new" and I raplaced the cuurrent one with the new one and it still doesnt work. It was the last yum update that did it. Do you think xorg can be reinstalled or something? Or can I undo the last updates?
well first things first have you done a complete update with yum? and what graphics card do you have? also could you at least tell me what the monitor, screen, and videocard sections of your xorg.conf say
also how are you accessing the internet just now eg dual booting, separate windows pc if the later do you have the two machines networked?
Originally posted by fraz well first things first have you done a complete update with yum?
xorg was the only thing updated the last update.
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Originally posted by fraz what graphics card do you have?
Dell integrated video.
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Originally posted by fraz could you at least tell me what the monitor, screen, and videocard sections of your xorg.conf say
Doesn't look like I can sorry.
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Originally posted by fraz also how are you accessing the internet just now eg dual booting, separate windows pc if the later do you have the two machines networked?
Seperate windows pc. I tried to upload the xorg.conf to a ftp but it wasnt working for whatever reason...
I see several versions of xorg available for download at http://www.x.org/download.cgi . Could this be of help. I can't believe i'm having to do all of this...
ok I don't think there will be dell drivers for your graphics card so no help there
if i understand you correctly you are using ftp from your linux pc to login to your windows pc? you'd have to do it the other way around unless you have specifically installed an ftp server on your windows pc
when you used yum did you do a general update ie yum upgrade or did you specify to update xorg?
you can check which xorg packages are installed by typing
rpm -qa | grep xorg
and check if you have the latest versions
also you might want to include atrpms and freshrpms in future yum updates if you haven't done so already:
Originally posted by fraz ok I don't think there will be dell drivers for your graphics card so no help there
if i understand you correctly you are using ftp from your linux pc to login to your windows pc? you'd have to do it the other way around unless you have specifically installed an ftp server on your windows pc
when you used yum did you do a general update ie yum upgrade or did you specify to update xorg?
you can check which xorg packages are installed by typing
rpm -qa | grep xorg
and check if you have the latest versions
also you might want to include atrpms and freshrpms in future yum updates if you haven't done so already:
I did all this and it's still scrambled.
I think I just want to uninstall xorg and then reinstall the older version. Do you think that would be safe to do? I don't know. If I dont get this resolved, then I dont think i'll install fc3 again.
Last edited by scriptn00b; 09-17-2005 at 03:45 PM.
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