MX510 Problem

[Chyrania]

Guys, I cocked up my xorg.conf trying to get my MX510 to jump through hoops and now I can't boot into graphical mode. I figure if I access xorg.conf I can restore the original settings that I commented out.

 

Exactly how I do edit xorg.conf from command line?

[scarecrow]

Exactly how I do edit xorg.conf from command line?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

su (provide root password)

urpmi mc nano

(if they aren't already installed)

Now either type

mc

and then navigate to the /etx/X11 directory, highlight xorg.conf and pressing F4 (for editing) F2 (for saving) and F10 (for leaving), or alternatively

nano /etc/x11/xorg.conf

(Very easy to use console text editor, don't think any particular usage instructions are needed, unlike the more common vi editor).

[Chyrania]

Will give it a try. Thanks.

[Chyrania]

I'm still unable to boot into graphical mode.

 

How do I print my xorg.conf while running at command line level? If I can figure that out, I will post my xorg.conf for you to look at.

[scarecrow]

Do you have some easy storage medium, e.g. a USB pendrive?

[Chyrania]

The only storage I have is a DVD burner.

 

I copied the mouse entries from my xorg.conf in the hope that it will point someone in the right direction:

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

 

Hope that helps a bit.

[scarecrow]

It doesn't help.

Open your printer, and try first the simple

lpr /etc/X11/xorg.conf

as root.

[Chyrania]

Couldn't figure out how to get this from Linux to Windows. Thank the lordy for command line ftp.

 

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Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse0"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection

# File generated by XFdrake.

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Screen "screen1" 0 0

EndSection

 

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

Load "dri" # direct rendering

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

 

# allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work

Option "allowmouseopenfail"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "keyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "gb"

Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

# Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 64.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4)

### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:

# HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0

# VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Plug'n Play"

ModelName "SyncMaster"

ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.0 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

ModeLine "768x576" 63.1 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay

# will be disabled automatically

# === Screen Management ===

# === disable PnP Monitor ===

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "ATI"

BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"

Driver "fglrx"

Option "DPMS"

Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"

Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"

#Option "NoDDC"

Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"

Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"

 

# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===

Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"

Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"

Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"

Option "CenterMode" "off"

Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"

Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"

 

# === OpenGL Overlay ===

Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"

 

# === FSAA ===

Option "FSAAScale" "1"

 

# === FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ===

Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000000"

Option "HSync2" "unspecified"

Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"

Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"

Option "no_dri" "no"

Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"

Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"

Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"

 

# === Misc Options ===

Option "UseFastTLS" "0"

 

# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===

Option "no_accel" "no"

 

# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===

Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"

Option "TVColorAdj" "0"

Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"

Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"

Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"

 

# === TV-out Management ===

Option "NoTV" "yes"

Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"

Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"

 

# === QBS Support ===

Option "Stereo" "off"

Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"

Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"

Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultDepth 24

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 8

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 15

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Virtual 1280 1024

EndSubsection

EndSection

[scarecrow]

Most likely a borked ATI driver installation... either reinstall the proprietary ATI driver, or change by hand the whole "Device" section to something like that:

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "ATI"

BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"

Driver "radeon" # MANDATORY!

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

 

Other than that, you can try changing the virtual resolutions to real ones- that is in the "Screen" section, subsections "Display", changing

Virtual 1280 1024

to

Modes "1280x1024"

 

Sorry I can't help more, ATI videocards aren't my forte...

 

If for any reason you still have no X, then the file /var/log/xorg0.log has very useful info about the failure- you can FTP that one as well, of course, but please upload it rather somewhere to the web instead of pasting it here: it should be rather huge! B)

Edited December 18, 2005 by scarecrow