On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:50:38 UTC, Lie Algebra
wrote:

> I have just bought a lcd monitor to replace my old crt
> and I was wondering how should I (re)set up X.
>
> -boot in single user mode,
> -backup the old xorg.conf and
> -edit it to reflect changes...
>
> Am I missing something ?

I'd run 'X -configure' first. Then do as you say, copying the stuff from
the xorg.conf.new that relates to the monitor (saves working it out).
Then edit for actual supported resolutions, etc.
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Lie Algebra wrote:
> I have just bought a lcd monitor to replace my old crt
> and I was wondering how should I (re)set up X.
>
> -boot in single user mode,

Why would you do that?

Unless you configured your machine to boot graphically. But in that
case, you could have disabled that while the old monitor was still
attached, then attach the new one and setup X again. After that works,
you can turn xdm (or whatever you're using) back on again.


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Lie Algebra wrote:
>
> I have just bought a lcd monitor to replace my old crt
> and I was wondering how should I (re)set up X.
>
> -boot in single user mode,

Not necessary.

> -backup the old xorg.conf and
> -edit it to reflect changes...

Or just rename it as a backup, connect the monitor and restart X.
Depends on how old the xorg install is, and maybe your hardware, but
will often work.

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Warren Block wrote:

> Or just rename it as a backup, connect the monitor and restart X.
> Depends on how old the xorg install is, and maybe your hardware, but
> will often work.
>

It's exactly what I did and it made the trick. I still reconfigured X to
use the highest resolution handled by the monitor even if this was not
necessary. I also figured out that the ctrl+alt+backspace sequence
doesnt kill X, it just restarts GDM as I am using it. So to kill X, I
have to stop GDM and the uniq way I found to do that was to run killall
gdm-binary...

Dnia 14.01.2008 Lie Algebra napisa³/a:
> Warren Block wrote:
>
>> Or just rename it as a backup, connect the monitor and restart X.
>> Depends on how old the xorg install is, and maybe your hardware, but
>> will often work.
>>
>
> It's exactly what I did and it made the trick. I still reconfigured X to
> use the highest resolution handled by the monitor even if this was not
> necessary. I also figured out that the ctrl+alt+backspace sequence
> doesnt kill X, it just restarts GDM as I am using it. So to kill X, I
> have to stop GDM and the uniq way I found to do that was to run killall
> gdm-binary...

It should be enough to restart gdm to issue:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm restart

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