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Hello,

I recently bought a T61i with SuSE, which didn't boot from Square 1. I fiddled with it a few times to try to correct the fact that someone at the factory dumped the install on one sector and then decided to try another distribution, since there was no SuSE disk in the box. I'm now running Fedora 8 with KDE.

Here's my question, after trying "Dual Head" to access a second monitor, my xorg.conf now defaults to the new monitor...and the backup to /etc/X11 doesn't appear. (I don't know why, and I'll know to make a separate backup next time. Can anyone share their xorg.conf showing how to detect the stock 14" display on the Thinkpad R61? My card is fine, but the display now is definitely not as crisp as it was originally.

Thank you for any insight.

Landshark

Move your xorg.conf file, so it doesn't exist. Reboot the machine. It should make one that works for you.

(I'm running F8 on my T60.)

Cool. Thank you. I'll give it a shot and post back.

Worked great. Thanks. BTW, despite the out-of-the-box difficulties, I think the R61 is going to be a great machine.

Worked great. Thanks. BTW, despite the out-of-the-box difficulties, I think the R61 is going to be a good machine. I'm still tweaking the Thinkpad buttons using TPB, and not all of them are working yet, but I'll keep playing around.

Oops. Actually one more question. After I renamed the xorg.conf to xorg.conf.backup in /etc/X11, I rebooted the machine. When it came up, the display was "fixed"--much sharper, as it had been originally.

But when I went back to /etc/X11, I only find the backup that I made and no other xorg.conf, and it still lists the other, remote monitor.


What the heck is this running on for a configuration file, and shouldn't the OS have created a new one?

Weird...

I think it just makes up whatever it needs. There's a command to regenerate a new one, if needed. You might try changing the video driver in the settings menus (from/to vesa versus the other one for your machine) and that should create an xorg.conf. I'm no expert on this specific topic, but I manage OK.

I ran system-config-display as root, and it regenerated the xorg.conf file. Up until I did, the system was running without one, which was interesting. Evidently there's a default config somewhere that X falls back to if there isn't an xorg.config in /etc/X.

With no displays attached or anything run "X -configure" and it'll spit out a new file you can use, pretty barebones.

Also, to get dual head working look at xrandr.

I wanted to close this out and mention that I ran system-config-display as root, and it regenerated the xorg.conf file.

I buzzed the various forums and found that I wasn't the only one to name the current one to .backup and still be able to run the system without an xorg.conf file. Fedora--and maybe other distro's--evidently either auto-detects the settings or has a stock .conf file that works OK with my Thinkpad.

Thanks to the folks that responded.