From: "Glenn Meadows" 

And this is supposed to be a "user friendly" OS that's ready for
JQP to use? I think not.

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Glenn M.
"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4597fe1b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Solution:
>
> > chroot /mnt/sysimage/
>
> Then I hit a new problem:
>
> > cd /etc/X11
> > Xorg -config xorg.config.new
>
> Then it hung in a corrupted screen.
>
> So then I rebooted the rescue disk. Then I read some web pages that had
> variations on how to do X config. So I tried:
>
> > chroot /mnt/sysimage/
>
> That leaves me in the hard drive root dir. I decided to stay there and do
> this:
>
> > Xorg -configure
>
> That exited with a signal and a call stack that suggest it hit an
> exception. But in spite of that it generated a xorg.config.new in /tmp/.
> So I did:
>
> > cp /tmp/xorg.config.new /etc/X11/xorg.config
>
> Then I rebooted.
>
> Here's where it gets weird: It booted up at 1680x1050 and I got a Matrox
> Parhelia splash screen a couple of times while booting up as if I am now
> loading the Matrox Parhelia driver. I now have a 1680x1050 desktop.
>
> I still need to figure out how to rotate to portrait mode and how to
> enable the second monitor to get a dual monitor desktop.
>
> Now I hit new problems:
>
> 1) Gnome System | Preferences | Screen Resolution dialog box has Rotation
> grayed out.
>
> 2) Gnome System | Administration | Display brings up a "Display
settings"
> dialog box. But if I try to change settings there including the "Use dual
> head" and hit Okay the dialog does not close and it has no effect on the
> next reboot. Also, this dialog does not provide a rotate option.
>
> Questions:
>
> A) How to check whether I'm really running a Matrox driver?
>
> B) How to enable the second monitor?
>
> C) How to rotate both monitors into portrait mode?
>
>
> Randall Parker wrote:
>> I do:
>>
>>  > Xorg -config xorg.conf.new
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> Cannot open log file "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
>>
>> I know why: My hard disk / directory is currently mapped as
>> /mnt/sysimage/ because I've booted off a rescue CD.
>>
>> How can I change to make my hard disk's top dir be / so that what is now
>> at /mnt/sysimage/var/log will instead be at /var/log?

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