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On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:29, Kevin wrote: |
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> Good idea. I should've done that before writing here I guess. Sorry. |
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> From Bug 46794, it looks like someone already brought this up in April, |
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> so I'll drop it. Anyway, I already have the functionality that I want, |
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> so it's moot for me now. |
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At least somebody reported it. |
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> Actually, I'm pretty sure the fglrx driver does not support that |
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> card/chip. This is based on what I see when I try using it in addition |
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> to a vague memory of having read that somewhere---maybe on forums. But |
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> I'll look into it further and post a bug if the driver advertises |
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> support for that card/chip. |
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It probably does not support the chip yet. I tend to think that it |
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doesn't support it. |
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> Well, I thought that maybe the pc105 option would be important since |
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> it's a laptop---does XOrg autoprobe for stuff like that? I wasn't sure |
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> if the others were defaults or not. |
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> I did try your suggestion, though, and oddly enough, Gnome still pops up |
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> the same dialog when I log in as root. When I run the two commands |
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> (xprop and gconftool-2), they show the same information as before. Is |
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> this info cached by gnome or something? I would think that gnome would |
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> get the info from the X server which I must assume is getting it from |
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> xorg.conf. I restarted the machine to make sure that some stale cache |
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> info wasn't lying around in some temp file or something, but it's still |
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> there. |
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> Any thoughts on why this is happening and how to stop it? It seems like |
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> gnome got its info from X once, stored it somewhere, and now is keeping |
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> it---in spite of the change to xorg.conf. Is that what's happening? |
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> Seems like a bad idea, but maybe I'm missing something. |
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Delete all of the .g* folders in /root, like .gconf, .gnome* and it will |
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reset everything to defaults next time you log into gnome. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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