Re: Changing reolustion without X

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:40:06PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:16:23AM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Ossama Khayaat wrote:
> > > Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > >>
> > > Actually, I think I'll try to give more details about what's happening:
> > > * First of all, the PCs are Compaq Evo desktop PCs with an Intel 845 
> > > dispaly, and we have RH Linux 8.0 installed and running successfully or 
> > > all the machines with no problems at all.
> > 
> > So is this a problem with RHL8 or RHL9?
> > 
> > Worked fine for me. If X is not running, it starts a new Xserver.
> > Using --reconfig probes everything to create a completely new config file.
> 
> And hence the problem.  If the X config is invalid, you can't change it
> and the syntax of the command isn't properly documented.  If X doesn't
> start up at all, a new XF86Config isn't generated (I've demonstrated
> this and even bugzilla'd it) if the user has to c-a-bs out of the
> command.  All should be good if redhat-config-xfree86 probes everything
> correctly, but if there are any issues at all, debugging them is a royal
> pain in the arse.
> 
> Suggestions:
> 1.  XF86Config should be generated *first*, before X starts up, and kept
> around if the user has to c-a-bs out.
> 2.  redhat-config-xfree --help should document what the set-resolution
> paramter accepts.  I'm not near an RHL9 system now, so I can't tell if
> there is a man page for redhat-config-xfree86.
> 
Unless I spelled it wrong there is no man page.
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