[Klug-general] low RAM

[James Morris]

On 1 March 2011 08:09, Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> it's always worth backing it up just in case. After you've saved it just
> reboot the machine (or restart gdm) and then you'll see if it's worked.
> Worse case scenario is that the display manager will fail to start and
> you'll be left at a flashing cursor. from there you can do the following
> things to recover:
> sudo cp /home/rene/xorg.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf   - this copies your
> backup file back into the correct location then do
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart - this will restart the display manager and
> hopefully all is good.
> The nuclear option is
> sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf && sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
> This will delete your xorg.conf and the restart the display manager, when it
> restarts it should automatically recreate the xorg.conf

On my system using the (Slim display manager) I can also do

pkill x

in a terminal to restart X.


Bad luck having a Unichrome based card, they suck (at least in Linux -
last time I used one it involved patching XFree86 and recompiling it).



james.


>
> On 28 February 2011 21:30, Rene Brehmer <rbwalks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for all your support and information given I'm still reading and
>> doing the homework.
>>
>> Dan you send me this link:
>>
>> http://samiux.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/howto-via-s3-unichrome-pro-problems-fixed-on-ubuntu-9-04/
>>
>> I opened the xorg.conf in gedit and put this lines
>>
>> Option "PanelSize" "1024x768"
>> Option "sw_cursor"
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
>> Option "PanelSize" "1280x800"
>> Option "sw_cursor"
>> EndSection
>>
>> is selecting "save" all I've to do and changing the resolution should be
>> done?
>>
>> I put the correct screen size in which I took from my own laptop as this
>> is the same size only the refresh rate shows 60hz on mine and on the
>> fujitsu when selecting the same resolution in
>> "Display Preferences" the refresh rate stay's at 0hz.
>> Is it necessary to back up the old settings before changing the
>> xorg.conf?
>>
>> regards
>> Rene
>>
>>
>>
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