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Speedy

Sun Sep 02 2007, 05:18AM

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Somewhat against my better judgement, I decided to get rid of Suse and install Ubuntu. Anyways, whenever I try to boot into the computer, I get the message No RGB Input and the monitor goes blank. However, not all is lost, before it goes into that, I have the option to hit esc and get into the grub menu. If I select the recovery option, it will boot to a command line and I can do a startx to get into the GUI.

Now the question is how to I make it just automagically get into the GUI rather than me having to do startx?

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Sun Sep 02 2007, 10:40AM

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How old is your video card and what type?

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Speedy

Sun Sep 02 2007, 12:51PM

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Sapphire ATI Radeon x800 Pro 256MB PCI Express

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Sun Sep 02 2007, 03:05PM

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Edit xorg.conf and replace Driver "ati" with Driver "radeon"

Speedy

Wed Sep 05 2007, 03:48AM

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No luck, still does the same thing.

Speedy

Thu Sep 06 2007, 02:36PM

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Is there a specific location in the xorg.conf file that specifies the startup resolution or is xorg.conf the wrong place to be looking for this solution?

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Thu Sep 06 2007, 05:42PM

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Section "Screen"

You will find multiple entries simillar to the below:

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection

What video driver are you using?

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Speedy

Sat Sep 08 2007, 03:05AM

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I'm using the Radeon driver. I did manage a minor success when I finally got my monitors to display in 1280x1024 but I still cant get it to boot into Gnome.

Speedy

Sat Sep 08 2007, 03:25AM

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Another minor success, I got dual screens working.

Speedy

Mon Sep 10 2007, 02:43AM

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I think I'm going to put this project on hold a few days while I figure out what I want to do with my whole computer situation.

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Try the fglrx driver.


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