On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:29, Kevin wrote:
> Good idea.  I should've done that before writing here I guess.  Sorry.  
> From Bug 46794, it looks like someone already brought this up in April, 
> so I'll drop it.  Anyway, I already have the functionality that I want, 
> so it's moot for me now.

At least somebody reported it.

> Actually, I'm pretty sure the fglrx driver does not support that 
> card/chip.  This is based on what I see when I try using it in addition 
> to a vague memory of having read that somewhere---maybe on forums.  But 
> I'll look into it further and post a bug if the driver advertises 
> support for that card/chip.

It probably does not support the chip yet.  I tend to think that it
doesn't support it.

> Well, I thought that maybe the pc105 option would be important since 
> it's a laptop---does XOrg autoprobe for stuff like that?  I wasn't sure 
> if the others were defaults or not.
> 
> I did try your suggestion, though, and oddly enough, Gnome still pops up 
> the same dialog when I log in as root.  When I run the two commands 
> (xprop and gconftool-2), they show the same information as before.  Is 
> this info cached by gnome or something?  I would think that gnome would 
> get the info from the X server which I must assume is getting it from 
> xorg.conf.  I restarted the machine to make sure that some stale cache 
> info wasn't lying around in some temp file or something, but it's still 
> there.
> 
> Any thoughts on why this is happening and how to stop it?  It seems like 
> gnome got its info from X once, stored it somewhere, and now is keeping 
> it---in spite of the change to xorg.conf.  Is that what's happening?  
> Seems like a bad idea, but maybe I'm missing something.

Delete all of the .g* folders in /root, like .gconf, .gnome* and it will
reset everything to defaults next time you log into gnome.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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