On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:54:30 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 18:49 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> I have live media running respins of F14 on machines where F14 >> is installed, and doing better with my monitor than the hard drive has >> been doing. (One is currently running the Fusion release candidate; >> the other has the plain F14 Live.) >> >> I want to figure out what is different, and edit the >> corresponding file on the hard drive to match. >> >> But for some reason, I can't seem to remember nor reconstruct >> any way to get to the hard drive. What am I not seeing?? > > Mount a hard drive partition, copy the currently working xorg.conf file > to it, Afaict, there is no current xorg.conf, period, on the hard drive nor on the live medium; whatever is working must be something else. > then use it as a template when you reboot from your hard drive > installation. > Hint: mount /dev/sd-whatever /mnt That's probably the thought I'm missing. But there are only five / dev/s-whatever files. Two are scd0-1, both symlinks of size 0; the other three are sda, sda1, sda2 -- all size 0. Is it going to do any good to mount empty files?? > Don't actually have an xorg.conf file? Try making X create one. How do I do that?? And how will it help? Since none exists, doesn't that mean the live media are running GUIs some other way?? > Alternatively, copy the xorg log files from the live session to your > hard drive, so you can compare them. None exist, afaict; certainly not in /etc/X11 -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
