Hi Colin,<br><br>Thanks for offering your help in solving my problem with getting my VGA out to work.<br><br>Here is what I have for the relavent sections in xorg.conf...<br><br>------------------------------<div>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Section "Device"<br> Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1"<br> Driver "ati"<br> BusID "PCI:1:5:0"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br>
Identifier "Generic Monitor"<br> Option "DPMS"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Default Screen"<br> Device "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1"<br>
Monitor "Generic Monitor"<br> DefaultDepth 24<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Modes "1280x800"<br> EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>Now, one of the things I learned is that I may have to replace the "ATI" driver with a thing called<b> fglrx </b>and that<b> aticonfig </b>does this for me.<br>I also seem to have<b> flglrx-control </b>installed (a Control panel for the ATI graphics accelerators) but I don't know how to access it.<br>
It does not seem to have a GUI and if it does, I can't find it in either System-> Admin or Applications.<br><br>Yes,
I do know that there is a GUI in System>Admin Called Screens &
Graphics but I don't know if this is the ATI control panel. I don't
think it is because there is no reference to ATI anywhere in it.<br>
<br>I also tried your suggestion of using <b>aticonfig </b>and got this back...<b><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></b>johnfruh@eMachine:~$ aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>
Uninitialised file found, configuring.<br>Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-1<br>aticonfig: <b>Writing to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' failed. Bad file descriptor.<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br></b>Huh? What does <b>Bad file descriptor </b>mean with respect to xorg.conf? How can xorg.conf have a <b>Bad file descriptor?</b><br>So, again, I'm stumped. What do I do now?<br><font color="#888888"><br>...John</font></div>