Im still a Linux amateur thus it’s not like a tutorial is big help for me, it just keeps me making new threads about each new step of the tutorial if after a week of trying I can’t do it
Hi!
Sorry I don’t want to quote you message - it’s to big
About backup:
Replacing YYDDMM with year, month, etc. is a good idea. You can find out your own way to rename your backups (I’m usually doing with example: xorg.conf.beforeBetaDriver).
Your xorg.conf is in /etc/X11/.
Edit with
sudo edit xorg.conf
press A if you want to insert something to the file.
To save, press : and type
save! xorg.conf
You need to insert all lines from the wiki page into your xorg.conf as it’s explained.
You will also need to add these lines to the server layout for the GIMP to use this tablet:
It means that these lines are going into: Section "ServerLayout"
Good luck.
Hello !
xorg.conf is basically just a text-file with really impotant infirmation in it !
It’s use by Xorg to display things at your screen, etc… (like the screen driver, etc)
So, before editing your xorg.conf file, it’s always good to make a copy, that you could restore later, so, if you “break” your display, you will just have to restore the saved xorg.conf and reboot, and it’s all gonna be ok.
Now, to backup, you will have to launch nautilus with root, and copy-paste somewhere else, or rename it. (remember the name)
Or you could use the command “cp” in a terminal, as it is explained in the howto.
You can rename your xorg.conf the way you want, and you can have as many backup of this file as you want. That why it’s a good idea to rename it with the date the change was made. (YY-MM-DD), exmeple: “xorg.conf_this_is_my_back_up_before_installing_the_tablet_date_25dec2008”
As long as you know you’ll be able to remember the name, it’s ok. (that’s why I only keep one backup, named “xorg.conf_bak”
To edit your xorg.conf,you can also use your regular text-editor (gedit or kate) but with root.
(in a terminal: “su root”, enter, then “gedit /etc/X11/xrog.conf”)
Hope it helped
Bye
ps: sorry for my bad english, I understand better then I write
ehhh thanks it helped but some real trouble appeared!
whenever I try to log on , I instead am asked to type my login and password and end up in some command thing and I’m stuck there, I dont know any commands
It might be because xorg.conf is broken…so, now you see the backup is necessery.
to launch the Desktop, try to type-in “startx” without the quotes.
If nothing happen, post the error message here.
Anyway, try to do something similar to this:
“cp /xorg.conf_backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf” (without the quotes) to copy the backed-up xorg in place of the messed-up one: Les commandes fondamentales de Linux
Where are you now, in the process: you have no user interface, right ? I mean, when you boot, everything boots fine, except for the UI ?
In command line, it asks for your user and password?
If yes, it means your xorg is broken and you need to restore it.
Login in root: type in “root” for the login and your regular password.
hmmm since im new with directories… ehhh
my backup was a plain old copy also called xorg.conf and was placed on my desktop… what will the directory be?
IMHO you are properly set the xorg.conf file. I don’t know why it isn’t works. My guess is that the X have problems with your Input devices. This is the section what you’ve modified - play with these parameters. Sorry I can’t suggest you any more specific.