messed up my gamma now screen all screwed up - Page 2

10-25-2006	#11 (permalink)
maddbaron Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 38	I called acer and they told me its an integrated SiS Mirage videocard on an Aeus motherboard.

10-25-2006	#12 (permalink)
antidrugue Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 3,213	Run Code: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and answer all the question accordingly to your setup. Your video driver is either "sis" or "vesa". __________________ "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow." -Bruce Lee

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maddbaron

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Originally Posted by antidrugue

Run

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and answer all the question accordingly to your setup. Your video driver is either "sis" or "vesa".

THANKS!

I will give it a go..i believe its a SiS even though I saw Vesa in kcontrol days before...very weird...

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maddbaron

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THANKS!

I will give it a go..i believe its a SiS even though I saw Vesa in kcontrol days before...very weird...

I got it working! whooo...i deleted all the conf files from the past few days, cloned and copied and renamed a conf file from july i found in the x11 section and rebooted and it worked! thank you for your help!

10-25-2006	#15 (permalink)
antidrugue Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 3,213	Cool! Congratulations! __________________ "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow." -Bruce Lee

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maddbaron

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Cool! Congratulations!

yeah this is great...lol...question i used adept to get fluxbox, and idesk...how do i launch them to replace my current environment and file manager?

10-25-2006	#17 (permalink)
antidrugue Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 3,213	You should get a choice in your login manager (where you type username and password after boot) to go into fluxbox (session). __________________ "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow." -Bruce Lee