<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I have been running X.Org X Server 1.4.2 from Slackware 12.1 for some time and would now like to upgrade to the newest X (X.Org X Server 1.12.3) by installing Slackware 14.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">There seems to be some problems.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have the following HW:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Video board: Radeon HD 3300</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Monitor: ViewSonic P225f</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">And I would like to run it at at least 1600x1200 @75Hz vertical refresh.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The best it will do with Xorg 1.12.3 is 1024x768 at 60Hz, a Vesa standard.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have looked at http://wiki.x.org and around the web and seen some suggestions with how to deal with Xorg and CRT screens, but I can't make them work.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The xorg.conf that I use with Xorg 1.4.2, but that doesn't work now, and the output of running "X -configure" with Xorg 1.12.3 is pasted below.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I haven't pasted the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file as it is rather large and I don't know what is significant over what "X -configure" doesn't show.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">It seems that a probable significant change is that in the old Xorg the driver is "radeonhd" exist, which it doesn't now?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Isn't the functionality in 'radeonhd' now included in the radeon driver?<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Please let me know if you have any suggestions of what I can do and if you need additional info?<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div>Thank you and best regards,</div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"># cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Keyboard1"<br> Driver "kbd"<br> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"<br> Option "XkbLayout" "dk"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Mouse1"<br> Driver "mouse"<br> Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"<br> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br> Identifier "Mouse2"<br> Driver "evdev"<br> Option "device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-MLK_OM1007_Wireless_Mouse-event-mouse"<br> Option "HWheelRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "monitor1"<br> VendorName "ViewSonic"<br> ModelName "ViewSonic P225f-5"<br>
HorizSync 100-127<br> VertRefresh 80-180<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "device1"<br> VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"<br> BoardName "ATI Radeon X1300 and later"<br> Driver "radeonhd"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "screen1"<br> Device "device1"<br> Monitor "monitor1"<br> DefaultColorDepth 24<br> <br> Subsection "Display"<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "2048x1536" "1600x1200" <br> EndSubsection<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier "layout1"<br> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"<br> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"<br>
InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"<br> Screen "screen1"<br>EndSection</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"># cat /disk/hdc7/root/X.configure.14Oct2012<br><br>X.Org X Server 1.12.3<br>Release Date: 2012-07-09<br>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0<br>Build Operating System: Slackware 14.0 Slackware Linux Project<br>Current Operating System: Linux kultorvet 3.2.29-smp #2 SMP Mon Sep 17 13:16:43 CDT 2012 i686<br>Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0
SLACK_KERNEL=hugesmp.s BOOT_IMAGE=/kernels/hugesmp.s/bzImage root=/dev/sdb7 rdinit= ro<br>Build Date: 23 August 2012 02:27:55PM<br> <br>Current version of pixman: 0.26.2<br> Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org<br> to make sure that you have the latest version.<br>Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,<br> (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,<br> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.<br>(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Oct 14 07:23:39 2012<br>List of video drivers:<br> neomagic<br> ztv<br> sis<br>
geode<br> i740<br> cirrus<br> apm<br> mach64<br> savage<br> tdfx<br> ati<br> i128<br> openchrome<br> vmware<br> tga<br> v4l<br> ark<br> dummy<br> s3<br> ast<br> nv<br>
chips<br> trident<br> intel<br> modesetting<br> r128<br> radeon<br> nouveau<br> glint<br> siliconmotion<br> mga<br> s3virge<br> voodoo<br> rendition<br> vesa<br>(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"<br>(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"<br>Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.<br> Configuration failed.<br>Server terminated with error (2).
Closing log file.<br><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>