X problem: failsafe has become the default
in [UK Linux]
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From: Richard Kimber on 29 Dec 2007 14:28 I have had a perfectly good working Ubuntu 7.10 system with the nvidia driver. Until I bought a new mouse and edited the mouse section of xorg.conf (though I'm not convinced that has anything to do with it - it was something else involved in the reboot I'm sure) I had 1280x1024. The mouse works fine, but X now insists on using xorg.conf.failsafe instead of xorg.conf. Neither a complete re-configuration of X, nor a re-boot, nor re-starting X from the login screen (ctrl-alt-Backsp) will shift it back to the normal xorg.conf setup. Something, somewhere is passing the 'failsafe' option to the xserver. Anyone any ideas how I can make it use the normal conf file? I'm fed up with 800x600. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
From: Ian on 29 Dec 2007 17:26 On 29 Dec, 19:28, Richard Kimber <rkim...(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > I have had a perfectly good working Ubuntu 7.10 system with the nvidia > driver. Until I bought a new mouse and edited the mouse section of > xorg.conf (though I'm not convinced that has anything to do with it - it was > something else involved in the reboot I'm sure) I had 1280x1024. > > The mouse works fine, but X now insists on using xorg.conf.failsafe instead > of xorg.conf. Neither a complete re-configuration of X, nor a re-boot, nor > re-starting X from the login screen (ctrl-alt-Backsp) will shift it back to > the normal xorg.conf setup. > > Something, somewhere is passing the 'failsafe' option to the xserver. > > Anyone any ideas how I can make it use the normal conf file? I'm fed up > with 800x600. Sounds like a typo lurking in xorg.conf. Can you change the failsafe one to 1280x1024? Ian
From: Neil Ellwood on 30 Dec 2007 03:59 On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:28:23 +0000, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have had a perfectly good working Ubuntu 7.10 system with the nvidia > driver. Until I bought a new mouse and edited the mouse section of > xorg.conf (though I'm not convinced that has anything to do with it - it > was something else involved in the reboot I'm sure) I had 1280x1024. > > The mouse works fine, but X now insists on using xorg.conf.failsafe > instead of xorg.conf. Neither a complete re-configuration of X, nor a > re-boot, nor re-starting X from the login screen (ctrl-alt-Backsp) will > shift it back to the normal xorg.conf setup. > > Something, somewhere is passing the 'failsafe' option to the xserver. > > Anyone any ideas how I can make it use the normal conf file? I'm fed up > with 800x600. Personally I never found ubuntu very user friendly and I would suggest a move over to debian (either stable or testing). -- Neil reverse ra and delete l Linux user 335851
From: Chris Davies on 30 Dec 2007 06:55 Neil Ellwood <cral.elllwood2(a)bt.openworld.com> wrote: > Personally I never found ubuntu very user friendly and I would suggest a > move over to debian (either stable or testing). That's a novel concept. As a Debian user I always understood Ubuntu to be the (independent) "friendly face" of Debian based computing...? I like Debian because it does what I expect. The once or twice I've tried the *ubuntu distributions they've tried to "help" me in ways that I don't want helping. Great for not-really-techies, I'm sure, but they're not (currently) for me unless I quit fiddling. Chris
From: Folderol on 30 Dec 2007 10:51
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:55:25 +0000 Chris Davies <chris-usenet(a)roaima.co.uk> wrote: > Neil Ellwood <cral.elllwood2(a)bt.openworld.com> wrote: > > Personally I never found ubuntu very user friendly and I would suggest a > > move over to debian (either stable or testing). > > That's a novel concept. As a Debian user I always understood Ubuntu to > be the (independent) "friendly face" of Debian based computing...? > > I like Debian because it does what I expect. The once or twice I've tried > the *ubuntu distributions they've tried to "help" me in ways that I don't > want helping. Great for not-really-techies, I'm sure, but they're not > (currently) for me unless I quit fiddling. > > Chris This is nice to see. .... so I'm not the only one :) -- Will J G |