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xorg.conf
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:14 pm
by rvgsd
Hi! I was a Xubuntu user until now..I just installed Lubuntu and its great! super speed!
I had one question, In Lubuntu 10.04, how do I change my laptop monitor default color depth to 16 instead of 32?
(In xubuntu 8.04 I had edited XORG.CONF to do so). I couldn't find the XORG.CONF file.
Thanks for help.!
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:42 am
by rockdoctor
rvgsd wrote:Hi! I was a Xubuntu user until now..I just installed Lubuntu and its great! super speed!
I had one question, In Lubuntu 10.04, how do I change my laptop monitor default color depth to 16 instead of 32?
(In xubuntu 8.04 I had edited XORG.CONF to do so). I couldn't find the XORG.CONF file.
Thanks for help.!
You'll need to create an xorg.conf file. As root from the console (with X not running)
Will create the file
/root/xorg.conf.new. Edit to suit your needs, then move it to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:59 am
by onecallednick
I'm trying to install the proprietary nvidia drivers for my tnt2. Is this what I'll need to do? I'm kind of lost. The tnt2 is supposed to be recognized if I open the hardware drivers app, but it isn't.
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:06 am
by Marty Jack
TNT is so old that only a driver several generations of dropping-support ago supports it. It was just released in February so maybe it will build against a modern kernel. NVIDIA has fairly good instructions, or at least they used to several years ago when I had one of their cards.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_disp ... 86.13.html
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:33 am
by onecallednick
I just tried that, and I got this:
ERROR: Unable to find the system utility `ld`; please make sure you have the
package 'binutils' installed. If you do have binutils installed,
then please check that `ld` is in your PATH.
I'm running Lubuntu lucid.
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:25 pm
by Marty Jack
Did you do as it said and check if you have binutils? The NVIDIA install needs to build a driver using your kernel and its proprietary binary blob.
There should be a Development Tools package you can install using your package manager that has the compilers and linker. You will have to keep installing things until you have everything you need and it no longer complains.
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:04 pm
by onecallednick
Thanks. I just got a GeForce 2 Ultra my brother had sitting in a drawer and I'm going to try this again once I've got it installed. I think I understand what's going on now.
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 2:31 am
by onecallednick
Well, I was wrong. I thought I could figure it out but I can't. I just don't understand how to stop the X server. i've tried "stop gdm" or /etc/init.d/gdm stop and all those other things that supposedly work with no luck. Why am I failing?
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:31 pm
by Studio-Owens
That's because LXDE isn't using GDM, GNOME Display Manager, it's using LXDM, lightweight display manager.
Stop the LXDM
Generate a new xorg.conf file
Move the new xorg.conf file
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sudo mv ~/xorg.conf.net /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Restart the LXDM
Re: xorg.conf
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:23 pm
by flora
Studio-Owens, thank you for your contribution, the following has worked perfectly to me
Studio-Owens wrote:That's because LXDE isn't using GDM, GNOME Display Manager, it's using LXDM, lightweight display manager.
Stop the LXDM
Generate a new xorg.conf file
Move the new xorg.conf file
Code: Select all
sudo mv ~/xorg.conf.net /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Restart the LXDM
except that there has been a spelling mistake at the 3rd command:
~/xorg.conf.new
and not
~/xorg.conf.net
Kind Regards