I just installed a fresh box with a .36 cooking, which I then upgraded to kernel .37. Had some issues initially with an external DWA-125 USB wireless, but anyway, that's fixed now.
For some reason, when the OS boots up, it does not start xorg automatically. It lands on the text login screen. Once logged in, I can run 'startx' and start the X server just fine. Although, xorg does not seem to remember my desktop effects, but that's not really a deal breaker. Or maybe that's related to the first issue.
I looked into Xorg.0.log, but no errors there. Anyone have any ideas what's going on here? Or should I just start with a fresh cooking iso? Thanks.
Yep it works .. I put this at the bottom of the file
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off xrandr -s 1920x1080
but if you set the option " Manage the desktop and set the icons" (to have a wallpaper) then you will have a kind of "composite" desktop with a sort of patchworked wallpapers . So I needed to disabled this option ... but I won't . I want wallpaper :(
How can I add some resolutions to Xorg ? I did the X -configure and recuperate the xorg.conf.new and put it content to /etc/X11/xorg.conf .. whatever .. there are nothing which looks like a screen resolution and it change strictly nothing as at each logout X 800x600 appears (as I said up).
@moulefrite, to configure xorg resolution you can edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-Screen.conf (if you have it, else /etc/X11/xorg.conf) and go to the section "Screen", scroll down to the SubSection where it says Depth 24 and add the line
Modes "1024x768"
below Depth. The SubSection should then look like this:
You can replace 1024x768 with whatever your correct resolution is. For more details, look up the Documentation link on this forum, there is a guide to configure xorg.
@mojo, thanks for the response. Slim is setup to load in rcS.conf, however it doesn't. I tried manually typing in slim at the command prompt, right after boot, no luck. No error message, nothing, simply returns to the prompt.
I am running kernel .37, do you think the upgrade could have broken it? Are there any logs for slim that I can check? Thanks for the help.
Actually, I ended up reinstalling and this time slim started loading correclty, but I had a different problem. The keyboard and mouse would freeze when xorg loaded. Turned out xorg-xf86-input-evdev was missing -- not sure why, since this was a stable intall, then upgraded to cooking -- once I installed that, the problem went away.
Thanks for the help.
Ps: I think the mistake I was making earlier was that I was typing just slim at the prompt, instead of slim start.
mojo, you are nice guy . But now , is there a way I can switch off automaticaly my netbOok screen by editing Xorg ? Or do I have to do it with Xrandr in /.config/openbox/autostart.sh ?
Without a config file computer screen should turn off after 10 minutes.
If not you must install the xorg-xf86-video driver specific to your graphics chip. My laptop with intel graphics chip the vesa driver would not shutoff the screen. Had to install xorg-xf86-video-intel.tazpkg for screen to blank. On my nvidia desktop the vesa driver shutoff the screen.
DPMS screen configuration: Make file named 01-dpms-blank-conf Paste this:
I tried dpms, v, -h and -s before, The default live cd screen shuts off after 10 minutes. On my hd installation, however, I noticed today that the arguments line was commented out but uncommenting it did not fix the problem and now prevents the gui login. What other program or setting would break the original screen timer like that?