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ohadbasan

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Registered: 2009-08-18

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Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

Hey fellas.

I'm kidna new in arch. I got my system up and running with kde 4.3
but yet I'm having a few issues.
1. The system doesn't detect the correct screen resolution. it's a 1280x800 screen toshiba laptop with intel X4500mhd.
I've tried tweaking xorg.conf. it didn't help much so I'm attaching xorg.conf
the system sets the resolution by default to 1024x768.
2. I configured wicd to start automatically with kde (was this the right way to do it? just adding it to the startup applications?) but yet, everytime the X starts the system asks me for a root password for wicd. even after i enter it the X throws a message that it can't connect to wicd's D-bus. how can these issues be solved?

Thanks!

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dri2"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dri2"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        Modeline "1280x800_60.00"   83.50  1280 1352 1480 1680  800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync
        Option "PreferredMode"  "1280x800"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"        # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "vesa"
        VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
        BoardName   "Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth    24
                Modes    "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by ohadbasan (2009-08-19 00:29:11)

Ashren

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Re: Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

1. pacman -S xf86-video-intel and change driver to "intel" in xorg.conf
2. Add your user to the users group "gpasswd -a USERNAME users" logout and restart wicd "/etc/rc.d/wicd restart"

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ludovico

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Registered: 2008-08-24

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Re: Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

1. You can also try without xorg.conf now
2. Did you remember to add wicd to you DAEMONS list in rc.conf?

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ohadbasan

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Registered: 2009-08-18

Posts: 30

Re: Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

Wow.
you people are fast.
Ashren - your solution solved the resolution problem. many thanks. I was sure that the intel driver is built in the kernel therefore no need to d/l it manually.
ludovico - I didn't know that wicd is a daemon. thought it just an application. so as you said I added it to rc.conf and now everything works great.
can you guys plz direct me to some good documentation? I hate asking stupid questions.

thanks!

Crows

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Registered: 2008-09-05

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Re: Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

All hail the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd

Tis' the fountain of all knowledge.

brazzmonkey

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Re: Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

*edit*
2 secs too late...

Last edited by brazzmonkey (2009-08-18 10:15:07)

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Re: Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

A note for the future: Try to use a descriptive thread title. It makes it easier to search the forum later. (and increases the chance of getting help)

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ohadbasan

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Registered: 2009-08-18

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Re: Wrong Xorg resolution+wicd error.

sure.
I'll note that to myself
actually what confused me is that in the wiki it says that the intel driver is for:

X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

which are much older than my video card.