antoinedl
February 25th, 2009, 02:29 AM
Hi everyone,
I'll just go ahead and explain what I did and how everything is right now, because it seems pretty complicated to me.
After installer the fglrx driver (on a Ati X2300, HP Compaq 6910p laptop), I decided to try the features (compiz, available resolutions), and because I know a little bit how the xorg.conf file works (and because of the fact that I know that in Intrepid, xorg.conf is almost empty)...
So this is it, I tried the screen rotation in the Screen Resolution Manager (System--Preference-- Window/Screen Resolution manager ), I'm sorry, I cannot look, you'll understand why in a few seconds.
The screen became dark, and then I re-opened (rotated 90 degrees clockwise, the way I asked), but there was a big black stripe on the left side of my screen. I would have liked to fix this by using the same menu that brought me there, but everything on my desktop had disappeared : the 2 menu bars, my hard drives icons, and I couldn't even access the terminal with my shortcut keys !
I told to myself that I could just restart the Xserver (ctrl-alt-backspace), but when everything reloaded, it was just the same. I tried the terminal (ctrl-alt-F2 (3-4-5-6)) but I need a GUI to open the menu and reset the rotation !
I also tried "xfix" in the recuperation tool (with GRUB), but it didn't work. I finally tried "sudo aticonfig --initial -f" after having deleter xorg.conf (because it that command makes a brand new, shiny xorg.conf file), but this didn't work either...
If someone know how I could fix this, please !
Thanks a lot !
I'll just go ahead and explain what I did and how everything is right now, because it seems pretty complicated to me.
After installer the fglrx driver (on a Ati X2300, HP Compaq 6910p laptop), I decided to try the features (compiz, available resolutions), and because I know a little bit how the xorg.conf file works (and because of the fact that I know that in Intrepid, xorg.conf is almost empty)...
So this is it, I tried the screen rotation in the Screen Resolution Manager (System--Preference-- Window/Screen Resolution manager ), I'm sorry, I cannot look, you'll understand why in a few seconds.
The screen became dark, and then I re-opened (rotated 90 degrees clockwise, the way I asked), but there was a big black stripe on the left side of my screen. I would have liked to fix this by using the same menu that brought me there, but everything on my desktop had disappeared : the 2 menu bars, my hard drives icons, and I couldn't even access the terminal with my shortcut keys !
I told to myself that I could just restart the Xserver (ctrl-alt-backspace), but when everything reloaded, it was just the same. I tried the terminal (ctrl-alt-F2 (3-4-5-6)) but I need a GUI to open the menu and reset the rotation !
I also tried "xfix" in the recuperation tool (with GRUB), but it didn't work. I finally tried "sudo aticonfig --initial -f" after having deleter xorg.conf (because it that command makes a brand new, shiny xorg.conf file), but this didn't work either...
If someone know how I could fix this, please !
Thanks a lot !