please 'elp!

First ever post... please treat gently - ....

Fedora 7?..9 - no probs; been running - on my 'don't-ever-screw-up-machine' - for a long time (since I changed from SuSE 6.4 / 7.1

Jan 09 - Motherboard has gone pop on my circa 2004 Althon64 Shuttle 85G4 and I've done a complete re-install; virgin F10; on a Care-In-The-Community-Rocket-PC (circa 2008, dual core something, nVidia 8500 GT (key info)).


Fedora 10 - what happened?! *&*%^%$$$



The Xconf etc - it seems I can no longer 'simply' select my screen res to 1280x1024 on my iiyama E481S.

I won't go into details (!!!), suffice to say I'm absolutely cheesed-off to the n-th degree, having wasted probably 3-4 daze re-installing F10 from scratch (at least twice), then Mint 6, then Mint 5, SUSE 11.1 (go on - test me!) for all sorts of work-arounds / reasons.

Oh - and mot to mention installations of XP 'SP0' (yes - I still have the disks), XP SP2 and then SP3 - in another disk's partition...just to 're-write' my corrupted MBR.

I'll restrain myself from telling you the 'fun' I've had with GRUB and 'unbootable' machines (after 'installing F10 with encrypted disk on 'disk b' (HD0)!); without a partition to install my bootloader, before finally settling on BootIT-NG and making it work - good bit of kit).


I love Linux.

And then I hate her.


For the last umpteenth years I have bestowed all her virtues. Quite rightly too....

And yet, what a fool I feel -

I can't even get the damn thing to give me something on the screen that doesn't look half-cut...
Yet WinXp (after 3hrs installation/updates) gives me 1280x1024 no probs!!

gnnnrrr,,,,,

....

It seems all my problems started after Mint5 / Ubuntu 7 which all worked fine...(on the same machine) - but now... 1024 x768 on a good day.

Was there an X-re-write in the last 1/2 year or so????

The thread "Fedora 10: Screen Resolution Question - How to change it"

... seemed to be getting me there... but terminated abruptly.


Anyway, here I am. F10 ready to go. Virgin install once again, except this time, instead of cocking around with various 'recommended' installations (rpm fusion this and that at the command line) / re-building the nvidia 177 (or was it 172?)) and messing about with drivers after dropping to runlevel 3 and 'nano'ing the xorg.conf....

- I've gone for 'simple' and done a 'www.dnmouse.org/ 'autotens' (excellent or wot?) for my nvidia GeForce 8500 GT.

I've Googled and modded my xorg.conf. And then some.... (many times, various incarnations...).

But each time I re-start X it seems to overwrite my xorg.conf.

(I seem to remember that I may have selected, at 'some time', 'something' to re-build the nvidia driver if it doesn't exist??)


Go on punk.... are ya feelin lucky???

<gnrrr>

!!

TIA

Try

Xorg -configure

as root, it should dump the new file in /root/xorg.conf

just move it over to /etc/X11/

(save old copy as xorg.conf.old)

See if it still writes over it. Also, are you running X as root?

many thanks cheftec.

( Xorg -configure (as root) gives me /root/xorg.conf.new which I cp'd to /etc/X11/xorg.conf ).

On reboot, it's been overwritten by livna, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to have worked: 'system' =>'preferences' => 'hardware' => 'screen resolution' still only allows a max of 1024 x 768.


Attached is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf that was intended to be used, as generated by Xorf -configure) - before it's overwritten by livna (xorg.conf.livna_mod.txt) ...

Attached Files

	xorg.conf.new.txt (2.3 KB, 19 views)
	xorg.conf.livna_mod.txt (2.5 KB, 14 views)

alright, post your lsmod. We're going to remove the livna mod... whatever that is. post your lspci output as well. Also, try this: edit your xorg.conf like before, save and reboot, then start without gui. Then, see if your xorg.conf is the same, or if it was changed. With redhat, you can adjust which run level you boot with- this one will be three, I think. To blacklist (prevent from loading at startup), put the module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.