A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
To run the Windows Manager (Desktop Environment) of your choice the following have to be in the users home directory .xinitrc file. XFCE4 exec startxfce4 Gnome exec gnome-session KDE exec startkde
Getting modelines can be done by calculating them yourself or using a online calculator like this one. But still, you have to get all this information about your monitor. You wonder, why can’t the monitor itself just supply them? Well, it can. You can get it by using the EDID information.
Her er ei samling av tips for å få min bærbare PC til å fungere tilfredsstillende i Linux, oppdateres fortløpende. The solution is editing xorg.conf and adding “HorizSync 36-52” and “VertRefresh 36-60” in “Section Monitor”. Giving a startx, the desktop appears with normal resolution for the vesa driver (cannot use radeon driver on this machine). […]