Feisty screen resolution problem
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Sat May 5 02:50:08 UTC 2007
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:49:25PM -0400, Alfred wrote:
At the risk of coming across as some PAF (Pedantic Old Fart), the "su"
command actually started life as an abbreviation for "substitute user"
not "super user". But since most *nixes adopted the role of root as
Supreme Commander, its original meaning was subsumed. It still has all its original powers: you can "su" to whatever user is on your system as long as you know their passwords.
Jack
> Hi:
>
> Try using sudo in front of the command that you are using in Terminal.
> This gives you SU power. (Super User Privilege.) First time sudo is used
> you type in a password, after that, you may not need to do it again.
>
> sudo su gets you into the root, as su.
>
> Alfred!
>
> On Fri, 2007-04-05 at 18:02 -0400, Rachael Agnew wrote:
> > Wolf: Still having problems, and I think I've confused /etc/X11/xorg
> > because
> > *******
> > a) I get this msg: xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting
> > possibly-customised configuration file; backup in ....
> > **********
> > I carried on and entered startx and a new authority file was created,
> > then the nest message is
> > *******************
> > b) X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> > *******
> > The first time I tried your fix I got hung up on one screen that
> > wouldn't move, so I exited and tried again. The second time I realized
> > I needed to use the esc key (when ok didn't work) and carried on but
> > was aborted with the same message as in b) above.
> >
> > Any ideas? Do I need to reinstall Ubuntu 7.04 to start over fresh? I
> > frequently receive the message telling me I'm not authorized to do
> > something; what should I do about that?
> > Ciao
> > Rachael
> >
> >
> > On 4/30/07, Wolf <wolf.pusztay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rachael;
> >
> > You're getting close!
> >
> > You need to boot into 'buntu and hold down the ctrl-alt keys
> > and press [backspace]
> >
> > This gets you to a terminal (black screen)
> >
> > Login as you normally do and then do the following:
> >
> > 1. sudo /etc/init.d gdm stop
> >
> > 2. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> >
> > And answer all the questions the best you can, as the defaults
> > are usually ok, except for selecting intel for video and check
> > the resolution you want to ensure that 1280x800 is included.
> >
> > You should be good to go!
> >
> > When that's finished, enter startx at the system prompt to
> > restart gdm and see what you have.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > [mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf
> > Of Rachael Agnew
> > Sent: April 30, 2007 10:56 AM
> > To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> > Subject: Re: Feisty screen resolution problem
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for replying, Wolf:
> > I tried auto915Resolution at
> > http://roland-lopez.blogspot.com/2007/03/auto915resolution-ubuntu-resolution-fix.html
> > and another page (I forget the address) that gives
> > directions for Xorg.conf file tweaking. The video
> > card on my computer is Intel 945. (Screen resolution
> > for Windows is 1280 x 800 and that is okay so I would
> > expect that is what I want in Ubuntu as well.)
> > As a consequence of all the tweaking around I've been
> > doing, my mouse now jumps all over the place. I don't
> > want to reload Feisty because I managed to establish
> > an Internet connection and I'm not sure that I could
> > do it again. (Yes, I'm green.)
> > Ciao,
> > Rachael
> >
> >
> >
> > Rachael;
> >
> > Can you tell us what you tried, what video
> > card you are using and what monitor
> > size/resolution you want/have?
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wolf
> >
> > On 4/28/07, Rachael Agnew
> > <rachael.agnew at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello -- Need help with adjusting
> > screen resolution. Someone (that would
> > be Patrick at the Linuxcaffe Ubuntu
> > users meeting about six meetings ago)
> > helped me adjust it for Edgy, but I
> > forgot what the adjustment was.
> > Nothing I've read and tried so far for
> > Feisty is working -- everything
> > remains squished. Anyone know what I
> > need to do? (Patrick, are you out
> > there?)
> > Ciao.
> > Rachael
> >
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