From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 18:13:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D1E37B405 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (dialup-3.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.132]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g441HL187952 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 10:47:22 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200205040117.g441HL187952@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Subject: X11 config wierdness Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:44:34 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! My 19" monitor became sick, so I have to use the 14" backup monitor for now :-( To use the 14" monitor I went to /etc/X11 and copied XF86Config to XF86Config.19 so I could revert later. Then I invoked /stsnd/sysinstall - X configuration and chose the graphical interface and "use existing as defaults". Then altered the monitor figures to suit, chose 800x600 16bit colour, OK and left. X11 seems to work just fine on the small monitor and is certainly running at 800x600 (I had to alter my app defaults to make their windows MUCH smaller). Thought I might try to use virtual larger screens, so went to XF86Confug and discovered that NOTHING had changed, except the file's date!! What is going on, here - where is X getting its instructions from if not /etc/X11/XF86Config ?? Yes, I did check the other possible location for XF86Config - that directory is empty. Advice, anyone? -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message