Anyone got a Dell Mini 9 with a working xorg.conf?
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From: Simon Brooke on 30 Jan 2010 08:14 On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:02:35 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > In article <7siiolF7qgU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Simon Brooke > <stillyet+nntp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>I'm feeling somewhat sour towards Ubuntu just now... >> >>I bought a Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu pre-loaded about a year ago. I bought >>it because I wanted to encourage Dell to keep offering Linux as an >>option. My Mini 9 been very nice and reliable and useful, until over >>Christmas I installed some updates from Ubuntu... > > I have an Acer Aspire One - which has the same hardware more or less. > > My xorg.conf is at: http://unicorn.drogon.net/xorg.conf Many thanks. What kernel version are you using? I'm pretty sure it was at the time that I upgraded to 2.6.24-24-lpia that everything broke (but, of course, that could be coincidence). Cheers Simon -- ;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundam variat
From: Simon Brooke on 30 Jan 2010 08:17 On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:02:10 +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 30/01/10 12:24, Theo Markettos wrote: >> Simon Brooke<stillyet+nntp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>> I bought a Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu pre-loaded about a year ago. I >>> bought it because I wanted to encourage Dell to keep offering Linux as >>> an option. My Mini 9 been very nice and reliable and useful, until >>> over Christmas I installed some updates from Ubuntu... >> >> Which Ubuntu? >> >> I don't quite understand how Ubuntu manages its xorg.conf, as mine (on >> a Mini 9 on Ubuntu 9.04) is very sparse: >> >> Section "Monitor" >> Identifier "Configured Monitor" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Default Screen" >> Monitor "Configured Monitor" >> Device "Configured Video Device" SubSection "Display" >> Virtual 1024 1368 >> EndSubSection >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Configured Video Device" >> EndSection >> >> >> That's /etc/X11/xorg.conf There must be another, but I'm not sure >> where it lives. I can't spot one in /var. The GUI display manager >> tool works fine, so it must be saving the settings somewhere. >> >> I notice a list of monitors I've ever used in ~/.config/monitors.xml >> but I don't know how that gets used. >> >> Theo > > Modern implementations of X server auto-configure using udev. Generally > they seem to get it right. Only where they can't autodetect the hardware > do they need a bit of help from a xorg.conf, so that's why your file is > sparse; there is no other. H'mmmm. Any idea how I hint to it that it's getting things woefully wrong? -- ;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundam variat
From: Gordon Henderson on 30 Jan 2010 09:18 In article <7sipm6F7qgU7(a)mid.individual.net>, Simon Brooke <stillyet+nntp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:02:35 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> In article <7siiolF7qgU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Simon Brooke >> <stillyet+nntp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>>I'm feeling somewhat sour towards Ubuntu just now... >>> >>>I bought a Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu pre-loaded about a year ago. I bought >>>it because I wanted to encourage Dell to keep offering Linux as an >>>option. My Mini 9 been very nice and reliable and useful, until over >>>Christmas I installed some updates from Ubuntu... >> >> I have an Acer Aspire One - which has the same hardware more or less. >> >> My xorg.conf is at: http://unicorn.drogon.net/xorg.conf > >Many thanks. What kernel version are you using? I'm pretty sure it was at >the time that I upgraded to 2.6.24-24-lpia that everything broke (but, of >course, that could be coincidence). I compiled up 2.6.31 for it. Still have a few modules as it seems to work better that way: Module Size Used by snd_hda_codec_realtek 199552 1 ath5k 123716 0 ath 7804 1 ath5k snd_hda_intel 24776 2 snd_hda_codec 65724 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel Gordon
From: Dominic Hargreaves on 30 Jan 2010 19:55 Simon Brooke <stillyet+nntp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > H'mmmm. Any idea how I hint to it that it's getting things woefully wrong? It's probably not what you want to hear, but vanilla 9.10 (upgraded from a 9.04 installed via the USB live environment over the original Dell install) works fine for me. I got away from the slightly-customised proprietary-application-ridden Dell version of Ubuntu as soon as I could (ie the first release that postdated the hardware's availability by more than a few months and was likely to have decent support). -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)
From: Ian on 31 Jan 2010 05:55
On 30 Jan, 11:16, Simon Brooke <stillyet+n...(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > It looks like the update to xserver-xorg-video-intel broke. The intel > driver is there, but it won't start; so Ubuntu cheerfully wipes out my > xorg.conf and substitutes it's own, using the vesa driver and insisting > that the only screen resolutions I have are 640x480 and 800x600. Have you tried booting it from a live memory stick, either vanilla Ubuntu or NBR? Ian |