Somewhere around Thursday 10 May 2007 12:37 pm, while hiding out in
alt.os.linux.debian, AJackson blurted out:

> On May 10, 1:32 am, Marty <this.addr...@is.invalid> wrote: 
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>
> Might be that the screen isn't started right/fast enough and not
> reporting right resolution to the video card the first time.  Set the
> resolution with
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg
>
> Any way, what is in your error log /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> "Yous the logs, dud" or was it "Use the force, luke" ;-)
> 
>
> Try same command after you have started the computer.  With the old
> configureation, X11 is looking for a ATI card and not a nVidia card.
> If it doesn't find that, it just stops (with an error message in /var/
> log/Xorg.0.log
> 
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> 
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>
> What error? You shouldn't get that.
> 
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>
> Little more information would be nice (like error messages from
> commands, strange lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and how your /etC/X11/
> xorg.conf looks like)

I'm sorry I didn't supply more information, but I wasn't at home at the
time, but I was a little impatient to hopefully get some clues.  As it
turned out, I did.

I ran the command line you specified, and it worked fine.  I don't know
what I did previously, but I must have made a typo in copying the
command from a browser on my Windows machine.  I may have added a space
before one or more of the hyphens, thinking it was a parameter.  This
time, I was able to save your message to my home directory, and get to
it all on one machine.

So, I entered the command, and went through all the prompts, and it
didn't work.  Then, I changed the line that Sabine mentioned from true
to false for "UseFBDev", and it worked with the new card.

Hopefully, this will solve my problems with the resolution, too.  I'll
let you all know.

I'm sure I'll have more questions, and I'll try to be more patient and
give better details next time.

Thanks to all of you.

-- Marty Fried
public.forums @ gmail . com


-- Marty Fried
public.forums @ gmail . com

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