On Tuesday 15 September 2009 10:23:40 am Pete Theisen wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:27:57AM -0400, draeath wrote:
> >> I've had trouble with it before as well. My solution
> >> was to disable EDID data completely, and manually
> >> specify "modelines" in my X config. Basically I had to
> >> tell X to stop playing with it and take me literally.
> >
> > I have to echo this. The most sure way I can think of
> > to ensure X does exactly what I want is to hack the X
> > config file.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> The behavior I was getting was that Ubuntu simply would
> not save the file. Sudo or not.
>
> Of course, you can't log into Ubuntu directly as root.
I have used 'sudo su' since Ubuntu doesn't do just 'su'.
Don
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