Brian, Good luck. I find that installs sre a way to move forward. I am using Debian Lenny and have the /,/home,/swap set up as recommended. home is about 5 times larger than /. You might also just write or recall your desired list of apps and re-install these, too. Do backup files so you can retain those. Yours, Ted P.<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">BrianO'Keefe</b> <<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Thanks Ted. I've looked at all of the xorg.conf files and tried any
that were different from the current one (or was the current one). None
of them produce a different result. It's not just the xserver, I don't
think, because I can't toggle back into a console when x doesn't start.
Or x is starting but w/o a display showing up and then locking up the
box?<br>
Am backing everything up and getting ready to do a clean install. I'm
wondering what directories I'll be able to copy into the new install to
replace what is installed? I'd like to get all my apps, etc. along with
my home directory. Maybe I'll put home on it's own partition. I'll need
help..... <br>
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Ted Pomeroy wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="e" id="q_12468dc6aa92b70a_1">Brian, I have had X11 problems and did fix it by copying
an edited xorg.conf into the X11 folder. Be sure to save the
non-working original by re-naming it, just in case you needit later.<br>
I was using an older Thinkpad, but if you know that one version of
xorg.conf worked you can copy it and use it if it works. You note as
well that you updated 3 or 4 items. I am not sure which or what is not
working. That is why I recommend saving the original xorg.conf file by
re-naming. I am not able to speak to all the possibilities or tthe
Toshiba architecture.<br>
Good luck. Ted P. <br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">BrianO'Keefe</b> <<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
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I have no screen in Jaunty. I have booted
into recovery mode and reconfigured the xserver with dpkg as well as
with "X -configure". the last command created a nice xorg.conf in
/root/X11. The xorg.conf in /etc/X11 is sparse by comparison. However,
running "startx" from the prompt just goes to a slightly lit but black
screen. Can't get back to the command line with ctrl+alt+F2.<br>
The question is if I should copy the /root/X11/xorg.config to the
/etc/X11/xorg.config?<br>
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Details below:<br>
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/root/X11/xorg.conf.new<br>
<pre>Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier "X.org Configured"<br> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"<br> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>
<br><br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Files"<br> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"<br> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"<br> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"<br> FontPath "<i><span>/</span>usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi<span>/</span></i>:unscaled"<br>
<br><br> FontPath "<i><span>/</span>usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi<span>/</span></i>:unscaled"<br> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"<br> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"<br> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"<br>
<br><br> FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Module"<br> Load "record"<br> Load "extmod"<br> Load "dbe"<br> Load "dri2"<br>
<br><br> Load "dri"<br> Load "glx"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Keyboard0"<br> Driver "kbd"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br>
<br><br> Identifier "Mouse0"<br> Driver "mouse"<br> Option "Protocol" "auto"<br> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"<br>
<br><br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "Monitor0"<br> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"<br> ModelName "Monitor Model"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br>
<br><br> ### Available Driver options are:-<br> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",<br> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"<br>
<br><br> ### [arg]: arg optional<br> #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]<br> #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]<br> #Option "ColorKey" # <i><br>
<br><br> #Option "CacheLines" # <i><br> #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]<br> #Option "DRI" # [<bool>]<br> #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]<br>
<br><br> #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]<br> #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i><br> #Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]<br> Identifier "Card0"<br>
<br><br> Driver "intel"<br> VendorName "Intel Corporation"<br> BoardName "Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller"<br> BusID "PCI:0:2:0"<br>EndSection<br>
<br><br>Section "Screen"<br><br> Identifier "Screen0"<br> Device "Card0"<br> Monitor "Monitor0"<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 1<br> EndSubSection<br>
<br> SubSection "Display"<br><br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 4<br> EndSubSection<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 8<br> EndSubSection<br> SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br><br> Depth 15<br> EndSubSection<br><br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 16<br> EndSubSection<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Viewport 0 0<br> Depth 24<br>
EndSubSection<br><br>EndSection<br> </pre>
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>
<pre>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "Configured Video Device"<br> Option "UseFBDev" "true"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "Configured Monitor"<br>
<br><br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Default Screen"<br> Monitor "Configured Monitor"<br> Device "Configured Video Device"<br>EndSection<br><br><br><br> </pre>
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