Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED

[Bill Davidsen]

BeartoothHOS wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:

>> the the Preferences->Display to
>> set the resolution. Failing in this use system-config-display --xorg to
>> create a new file, then edit that. Only needed to do that on one
>> machine.
> 
> 	I got an error message denying the existence of " --xorg"
> 
Wow, did I misremember that one. The method is "Xorg -configure" and must be run 
as root.

>> I make no claim to be an expert, I just have learned not to shoot myself
>> in the foot.
> 
> 	Between your post and Tom Horsley's, I happened to think of 
> changing the driver -- and did, from nv to vesa. I don't now recall 
> exactly what all else I did, but I do remember an oddity. 
> 
> 	At one point, I tried again to edit xorg.conf, and got a message 
> saying it didn't exist. I ran system-config-display instead to create one 
> -- and it did, with vesa instead of nv.
> 
> 	After all that, I can still only set the display up to 1280x1024, 
> not 1680x1050 (which this machine, I'm sure, did support before). But 
> that's within the monitor's own ability to adapt to.
> 
What does System->admin->display say in the display tab? I find that I need to 
manually set that sometimes. I think I said system->config->display the first 
time, had the wrong WM in front of me.

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