[Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

[Bob Donnell]

VMWare Player is available from http://vmware.com/products/player/

A pre-built Xastir installation (what VMWare refers to as a Virtual
Appliance) is available from sites listed here:

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware#Install_a_pre-built_xastir
_virtual_machine

This whole wiki page is devoted to the topic:

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware

Note too that the virtual machine comes installed with enough tools to
update, compile, and install the bleeding edge versions of Xastir, but you
don't have to do that if you're evaluating it.

Also, on the xorg configuration, you >may< be able to protect the xorg.conf
file by changing its permissions (once it's working) to only allow read
access.  And you can make backups of it - something like this:

 cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup

Then if something manages to change it, delete the original file, then copy
the backup file to the original name.

Hope that helps!

73, Bob, KD7NM


-----Original Message-----
From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org] On Behalf
Of Earl Needham
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:11 AM
To: xastir at xastir.org
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

At 11:04 AM 7/31/2007, Jeremy Utley wrote:
><snip>
>Hey Earl -
>
>I don't think it's Ubuntu itself that's the buggy thing.  I seem to 
>remember from your previous descriptions that you had a newer ATI card 
>in your machine?  (Radeon 9600 if memory serves)  ATI's linux drivers 
>are notoriously buggy drivers, and Xorg itself sometimes has problems 
>with driving newer ATI cards due to lack of proper specs.

         This is a laptop, but the video shows up as "ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M
Series".

>Before totally giving up and wiping out ubuntu, I would probably try 
>one thing - see if you can get a very simplistic setup going with your 
>video card.  Open up whatever your current X config file is in an 
>editor, find the "Driver" line (probably says ati or radeon or fglrx) 
>and change that to the "vesa" driver.  Then drop down to your "Modes"
>line where it specifies what resolutions you want to use - remove 
>anything higher than "1024x768" - you very well might get some stable 
>performance this way, but without 3d acceleration - and for running 
>xastir, that's not really needed anyway.

         Thanks, Jeremy, I've done similar multiple times.  Something is
changing the xorg.conf and I don't know what it is.  I've used Firefox,
Thunderbird, and Xastir on the installation, and not much else, although
occasionally I'll use Adept or Synaptic to update various parts of the
system.  The real problem is that, this last time, the screen is so messed
up that I can't see what I'm doing to fix anything.  Of course, this is all
in the GUI, in case I wasn't clear.  Also, I've been dual-booting, not using
VMWare, as I've read some do.

         7 3
         Earl

KD5XB -- Earl Needham
Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs
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