starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:06:07AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> I forgot a step here:
>> 3 (a).  If I let linux try all the modes, I get the following message:
>> The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 
>> seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 
>> minutes before trying again on display :0
>>     
>
> You probably speficied a mode it doesn't know (1280x800 is NOT a
> standard mode so not all X servers can do it).
I added the standard modes for this monitor (from specs off the 
Internet) and tried again. No luck. I got the same results (logon screen 
flashing onscreen but not persisting, several modes being tried, the 
"display srvr has shut down around six times" message, and I drop down 
to command line and reset DefaultDepth to 16, then I'm back where I 
started). The following is the /etc/X11/xorg.conf I tried:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     8
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x400" "640x350"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection

>   If you have something
> invalid, then X won't start.
I don't think I have anything invalid now but I'm still getting the 
undesired result...

Chris

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