[CentOS] Strange behavior in X, esp. VMWare Windows

Mon Apr 30 18:51:28 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On 4/30/07, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/30/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Last Thursday, for some reason (possibly a power failure), my work
> > desktop had a different video configuration than when I left Wednesday
> > evening.  I have two 17" flat panels configured as a two-head wide
> > (side-by-side) single display.  When I arrived on Thu, I had two
> > individual desktops instead, the resolution was down to 800x600, and
> > so on.  The monitor type had been reset to generic 800x600, and the
> > vido card was unknown.  (This was not true before.)
> >
>
> Why not restore your config from backup?
>

That was another of the oddities - the copy of my xorg.conf file I had
for a backup disappeared....  All of the xorg.conf.* files were
createad by pyxf86config, instead of system-config-display (i.e., they
were prepackaged).

Even so, though, why would the cursor be off-position, and only on the
right screen?  There's nothing over the screen that would diffract it,
unless the screen itself is out of sync, and I ran it through its
auto-adjust setting....

Thanks.

mhr