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victoria

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From: Boston, MA, USA

Registered: 2008-12-02

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Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

Whenever I put this command in: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

It goes to the xwindow screen, and it seems as if my computer is frozen.
I'm using (X3100) and the xf86-video-intel driver.
I generated xorg.conf.

It seems as if I have a whole mess of xorg.conf's all over the place.

Can anyone help?

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fukawi2

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

Have you tried wiping your xorg.conf and using one of the other autosetup utilities? (eg, xorgconfig or hwd)

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victoria

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From: Boston, MA, USA

Registered: 2008-12-02

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

Yes. I did.

I just edited xorg.conf.new

And I did this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syn … isabled.29

After that, I do 'startx', and I get a cursor that looks like : 'I' and two different boxes, and something that looks like it could be a clock in the top right of the screen.

First box says: login at the top, and in the box says bash-3.2#
Second box says: xterm, and in the box says bash-3.2#

And the clock looking thing looks like it's telling the correct time. o_o

I can't move the mouse, and I can't ctrl. alt. backspace.

Any one able to help? x_x

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thenameisgabe

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Registered: 2008-12-02

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

I've been trying to help her set this up. This is the problem:

X starts up, and the video seems to be fine now (after a lot of work).

hwd utility doesn't work correctly, it breaks the config and video doesn't even work ( gives the RgbPath error ).

Mouse and keyboard do not work. Can't even ctrl-alt-backspace out or switch to another virtual console, so its hard to tell wether the computer is frozen or if all kbd input is being ignored.

Synaptics driver was installed.

This is the laptop that this is being done on:

Toshiba Satellite A305-S6857

If anyone has any ideas, it would be awesome. I'm ok with linux, but I'm stuck

Thanks,
Gabe

thenameisgabe

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Registered: 2008-12-02

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

milestone:

booted an ubuntu livecd and grabbed the xorg.conf from there, which worked.

we got mouse, but still no keyboard (even though kbd worked in ubuntu live).

victoria

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From: Boston, MA, USA

Registered: 2008-12-02

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

External keyboard isn't even working..
Hmm.

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victoria

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From: Boston, MA, USA

Registered: 2008-12-02

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

This is the xorg config we're running right now, running it off of Ubuntu livecd.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver  "kbd"
Option  "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option  "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option  "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver  "synaptics"
Option  "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option  "Device"  "/dev/psaux"
Option  "Protocol"  "auto-dev"
Option  "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor  "Configured Monitor"
Device  "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen  "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

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oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 448

Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

how about booting faunos and seeing what drivers are used... then grabbiing that xorg.conf instead of ubuntu's

victoria

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From: Boston, MA, USA

Registered: 2008-12-02

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

Gabe solved my problems!
He's a genius.

/bow

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pyther

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

@victoria, bowing to gabe might not be the best idea. He stated

hwd utility doesn't work correctly, it breaks the config and video doesn't even work ( gives the RgbPath error ).

Simply commenting out RgbPath would have fixed the problem. The xorg output is very clear that it this an unknown variable. Now granted you nor Gabe may have picked up on that, but it has been posted numerous times on these forums within the last 48hrs!

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thenameisgabe

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

@victoria, bowing to gabe might not be the best idea. He stated

hwd utility doesn't work correctly, it breaks the config and video doesn't even work ( gives the RgbPath error ).

Simply commenting out RgbPath would have fixed the problem. The xorg output is very clear that it this an unknown variable. Now granted you nor Gabe may have picked up on that, but it has been posted numerous times on these forums within the last 48hrs!

Search before you post! Ahh!

Ah, but I did. Commenting out the variable did nothing and the screen was still garbled, with no kbd or mouse input.

Regardless of that, ubuntu's synaptics detection worked better, while the disabling hotplugging fixed the keyboard. X -configure somehow got the video right after the nth try. A combination of all these produced a usable xorg.conf.

Although, it still crashes when ctrl-alt-backspace is pressed, no idea why.

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Creating a xorg.conf for X server..

@victoria, bowing to gabe might not be the best idea. He stated

hwd utility doesn't work correctly, it breaks the config and video doesn't even work ( gives the RgbPath error ).

Simply commenting out RgbPath would have fixed the problem. The xorg output is very clear that it this an unknown variable. Now granted you nor Gabe may have picked up on that, but it has been posted numerous times on these forums within the last 48hrs!

Search before you post! Ahh!

Ah, but I did. Commenting out the variable did nothing and the screen was still garbled, with no kbd or mouse input.

Regardless of that, ubuntu's synaptics detection worked better, while the disabling hotplugging fixed the keyboard. X -configure somehow got the video right after the nth try. A combination of all these produced a usable xorg.conf.

Although, it still crashes when ctrl-alt-backspace is pressed, no idea why.

Why not just use evdev or is that too hard with synaptics? Evdev is the future, no reason to go back in time.