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Sloefke
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 Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: Fluxbox loading + resolution problem |
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First of all, I can't seem to get my X resolution right. I altered the xorg.conf file so that it reads
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HorizSync 31.5
VertRefresh 50-60
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800*600"
ViewPort 0 0
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Whichever resolution I try to get, I always get the standard "first X session" resolution (I suppose it's 640*480).
My monitor is an old ADI ProVista 14" monitor which should be able to display 1024*768 resolutions at 60 Hz. I can't find the horizontal refresh rate of the thing, so I set it to the lowest value.
Any ideas why the resolution doesn't change?
And then I tried to install Fluxbox. Emerging it went all fine but after the emerging (I followed the guide on gentoo.org) I tried to start Fluxbox, giving the following errors in xterm:
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Failed to read: session.updateDelayTime
Setting default value
Failed to read: session.tabPadding
Setting default value
<going on like this>
apps file failure
<resuming read failures and default setting>
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I can't see anything in the Fluxbox guide that I overlooked. I just did the one emerge command listed in the guide and tried firing it up afterwards. |
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SpecvWillis
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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It's probably defaulting to 640x480 because of a typo
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Depth 16
Modes "800*600"
ViewPort 0 0 |
Should be "800x600" not "800*600" |
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Sloefke
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, that's one hell of a stupid mistake, but fixing it doesn't solve the problem. I still get the same resolution.
-mod-: I'm just reading in the specifications of my graphics card that it has 8MB of VGA memory, while I thought it was 4MB and set up xorg.conf with this value. Could this be the problem?
-mod²-: I retried running "Xorg -configure" and now it works (yesterday it failed). After some tweaking (finding /dev/psaux as my mouse device seems to be hard) I get a nicely working X. That problem should be solved (didn't try changing the resolution manually, I'll leave it for now).
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SpecvWillis
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| It shouldn't, even with 4mb you should be able to do 800x600@16 bit colour, but it wouldn't hurt to try setting it to 8mb anyway. |
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Sloefke
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, now that I've got the resolution problem solved, I can read the final output of the Fluxbox generated errors:
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BScreen::BScreen: an error occured while querying the X server, another window manager already running on display:0,0
Error: Couldn't find screens to manage.
Make sure you don't have another window manager running.
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Weird, I just finished installing the core Gentoo system, Fluxbox is the first window manager I have ever emerged with this computer  |
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Apewall
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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it'd be helpful to post your entire Screen section and the monitor section.
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Sloefke
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Apewall wrote: | | it'd be helpful to post your entire Screen section and the monitor section. |
Would that be of any help in solving the Fluxbox problem? Or is it to solve the resolution problem? That second one is fixed now, don't know why Xorg -configure worked now and not yesterday |
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Apewall
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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was directed at the resolution problem:p
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