Re: Please, I Need some Gnome Help

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:53:15PM -0600, Greg Julius wrote:
> At 09:33 PM 12/21/2003, you wrote:
> [Snippage]
> 
> >> The path to the problem goes something like this:
> >>
> >> I finally upgraded my XFree86 to the latest RPM from RHN.  Running 
> >up2date
> >> via Gnome was failing on something about a configuration file.  Finally I
> >> tried installing it from the console command line  (up2date -u).  This 
> >time
> >> it said it had a problem with my /etc/X11 directory.  So I renamed 
> >it.  And
> >> did the same to /usr/X11R6.  The install went just fine (well seemed to).
> >
> >Well, I think you may have bought yourself a heap of trouble there.
> >It would have been more interesting (and helpful, likely) to have
> >heard the nature of the problem.  Having now a fragmentary /etc/X11
> >and /usr/X11R6 is surely the root of a lot of problems.
> >
> >I would use "mc" with the new /etc/X11 in one side and the old one in
> >the other and compare directory structures and filenames.  Do the same
> >with /usr/X11R6.  Ultimately, what you want to do is merge the two
> >sets, that is, either put everything from the old directory into the
> >new one unless there is such a file already there, or copy everything
> >from the new directory to the old, overwriting the old stuff, and then
> >rename the new directory to <whatever>.new and the old one to its
> >original self.  If you are knowledgeable of scripting and find and
> >cpio and such, that can be done pretty easily, or you can do it
> >manually with "mc".  Ask for advice if you need it.
> >
> >Once you get that squared away, then see where you are and work from
> >there.  If worse comes to worse, you can save off your /etc and /home
> >and reinstall.
> 
> Bob, thanks,
> 
> I'm certain I bought a hole bunch of it.  Oh well.  I thought the XFree86 
> was a complete re-install and that it would create everything it would need.
> 
> Anyway, I've got Gnome starting now, but I have problem with the resolution 
> or something.  I'll describe that in a moment.
> 
> I got to being able to see the Gnome start by doing the following:
> Created a new directory /etc/NEWX11.  cp -R X11/* NEWX11.  cp -R 
> --reply=yes OLDX11/* X11.  cp -r reply=yes NEWX11/* X11.
> Similarly for the /usr/X11R6 directory.
> 
> Then I started x and up came gnome.  BUT...
> The physical screen of the monitor looks like it is looking at the upper 
> left hand portion of the desktop.  It's like I have a resolution 
> mismatch.  Like it is trying to display a hi-res desktop, on a low-res 
> monitor.  However, both the card and the monitor are capable of much higher 
> resolution than is apparently being used (The icons are large currently).
> 
> What should I start checking next.  I suspect the config file, but what 
> should I look at first?
> 
> Thanks for the help so far!
> -greg

Well, now that you have the /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 directories
restored, this might be a good time to retry redhat-config-xfree86, in
fact, probably with the --reconfig option to make it start over.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.bobcatos.com
PC notwithstanding, Jesus is _still_ the reason for the season.