[Wolves] Xorg weirdness in Hoary

[Andy Wootton]

baza wrote:

> I'm not really sure what's going on.  When I boot my monitor says, 
> 'unable to display this video mode'. At that point I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 
> with a view to editing xorg.conf, out of a sense of experimentation I 
> hit C+A+F7, and there was the Gnome login screen running at 1280X1024 
> (which is what I want).
>
> What I can't understand is -why- it's doing that.
>
> Baza
>
AFAIK X runs on the highest defined virtual terminal, probably 'on' F7. 
I'd guess it is staying on the first virtual terminal, the console, 
because you need to read the error message or it (wrongly) thinks 
startup failed completely so it isn't a good idea to automatically flip 
you over to a dead X display. In reality it sounds like it is getting 
past the error and limping on.

Maybe someone who knows the dirty end of X better than me can help you 
diagnose the error logs.

Woo