Re: Display Problems

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:37:07 +0000, Ash wrote:


>> This also makes no sense to me. The directory is /etc/X11, and it exists,
>> or does not. If it shows up in the GUI, it is there, and must be present
>> from the console also.
>
> i typed:
> cd /etc
> then i typed:
> cd /X11

This should not work. This command asks to change to a directory "X11" in
the root directory, ie / and, as there is no such directory, you should
get the error message that you, in fact, did get.

If you are already in the /etc directory, first type "ls" (small L, s)
<Enter> to get a list of all files and directories in /etc. Toward the end
or the list should be "X11/" , the trailing / denoting that it is a
directory.

Or issue the command;

ls -l | grep X11 <Enter> # That's a small L after the -, and a pipe |

and it will return:

drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Sep 21 17:36 X11/

showing that the directory exists, and is owned by root, with group root.

That, being there, the command to enter X11, would be;

cd X11 <Enter> # Note, no leading /

or

cd ./X11 <Enter> # Note, the "." in front of the / ./ = from this
# directory

> and got the error message file or folder not found (or something like that).
> although i could find the /X11 directory in GUI mode.
> i have also tried :
> cd /etc/X11

This should work. Are you sure you typed that with an X rather than x?

> and i got the error message (file or folder not found).
>
> I'm not stupid.

If that's meant for me, it's wasted. I neither stated, nor implied, that
you were. I'd bet on frustrated, though. If it's a little self assurance,
in the midst of the frustration, by all means, vent away.

> according to the command prompt the folder is not there!

And we need to find out why that is. Let's take a moment to assess the
situation.

You are at home, somewhere in OZ. I am at home in Illinois, smack in the
middle of the U. S. of A. You have a problem, I do not. I have the same
model GeForce 6600 graphics card you have, and had, in the past, the same
problems that you are encountering now. After doing some research, I found
the solution to my problem, and logic dictates it should also be the
solution to your problem. Assuming, for the moment, that you do not have a
defective card, if I tell you what I did to solve the problem, and you
apply, exactly, the procedure that I relay to you, the results should be
the same. If the results are not the same, something in the procedure is
different. Either I am missing something, in my instructions, you are not
following them exactly, or there is something, as yet unknown, that is
preventing them from working, after having been properly applied. As yet,
we can not rule out the possibility of a defective card, a defect in some
other hardware, or a corrupt piece of software interfering with an
otherwise proper fix.

If we follow a very methodical, step by step, procedure, we should be
able to ascertain which of the above possibilities is at fault, and remedy
the situation. If you get all frustrated, give up, and quit, you are not
going to be a happy individual. I, on the other side of the world, will be
largely unaffected. I'm not the one with the problem. As long as you're
willing to post the information I, or anyone else that reads these posts,
ask for, I'm happy, as a clam sucking ditch water, to keep on helping you
to solve your problem.

Maybe someone else will see something in those posts that both of us miss,
and offer a perfect solution. That's how these groups work. Stay with it,
and you win, twice. You get your problem fixed, and you learn some nifty
*** in the process.

>>> what now?
>>
>> Copy paste the contents of your xorg.conf to your next post, so that we
>> (the group) can read it directly to see what errors might be present.
>
> ok if you think it will help. I'll do that next time I'm not frustrated
> with SUSE.

I certainly think it will help, or I wouldn't have asked you to post it.
It positively can't hurt.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."


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