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kdvgent

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Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 4

Some newbie problems

I am using Gentoo for quite a while but I am now experimenting with Archlinux.

I did a straightforward AMD64 install but there are a couple of things that do not work:

1. My LCD screen measures 1280x1024 and is indicated as such in xorg.conf (no other modes given).  But "at random", when rebooting (via KDM) or when starting the X-server from the command line, I get a 1280x780 resolution (that I cannot change to 1280x1024).  Any idea what may cause this?

2. Multimedia: I have sound when starting or closing KDE and with Dragon, I can play individual .flac files.  But neither Juk (for my collection of .flac music) and KsCD (for a CD) gives any sound.  They both indicate that they are playing but even with volume turned completely up, no sound.  I have installed all gstreamer plugins and made gstreamer my prefered backend to phonon.  Any ideas?

kdvgent

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Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 4

Re: Some newbie problems

Forgotten 3rd problem

Dragon does not recognise a dvd (no media loaded), nor a cd (idem)

xvalentinex

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 22

Re: Some newbie problems

kdvgent,

Could you post your xorg.conf? and when it starts w/ the wrong resolution the /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

You can force xorg to use defined resolutions by disabling edid in the xorg.conf monitor section.

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Some newbie problems

Dragon does not recognise a dvd (no media loaded), nor a cd (idem)

Are you using HAL? Try commenting any entries in /etc/fstab that reference your CD / DVD drive(s). They can interfere with HAL sometimes

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