ArcEye wrote:Hi
the current operational Xserver is "xorg". Where things have really changed for me is that there is, of course, no XF86Config file that one can edit - but on the other hand, the co-called xorg,conf file is nowhere to be found on my 10.04 setup.
Xorg.conf (I am fairly sure that it is capital X, and that that matters) is now optional. If you create one, then it will be used though.
The file in /etc/X11 is called xorg.conf and the command to generate a new config is Xorg -configure
I updated the wiki a little while ago, in respect of installing the vesa drivers, which is where most people need to edit xorg.conf
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Troubl...g#Using_Vesa_Drivers
Now shows a bit more info about creating xorg.conf where it does not exist (as in Ubuntu 10.04 and above by default)
regards
Hello ArcEye, thanks for the link

. I've been busy wrestling with other hardware concerns, including RS Australia having a problem with an order payment where I'd actually paid for it - the details were in my online bank records - with their claiming that I
hadn't paid for it. they had also rung me me up about it twice, but their calls had sounded like a spam calls (ultra long delay/no answer, so I unknowingly hung up on them bot times)...
I also didn't seem to get the Forum's email headsups for the last two posts and didn't check the thread. Oh well.
Enough of the whinging and whining and bleating and squeaking

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Interestingly, I had a hunch that Ubuntu might be adding in the touchscreen support by default, so I installed a new version on the yawning chasm that is my 80 GB ssd - and lo and behold, the touchscreen worked "out-of-box" with no intervention from me

. It does, however, have the X-direction reversed; I'll nibble away at it in between getting the hardware all hooked up.
Speaking of trhe latter, I have to make a new cable per Andy's suggestion near the beginning of this thread - but with a literal twist: I can either use a ribbon cable or a "round" cable, but
in either case I am going to have to solder one end of the new cable. Or take to the D525 MB and solder a different connector in place of the standar D25 female connector and thus smoking my warranty on the board (and potentially the board itself).
The other bit with a twist in it is that the SoundLogic board appears to have its pinouts "back to front" (although
not upside down), which means being careful tsolder the pins backwards from teh standard pinouts. At least, that's how it looks: I'm going to run through this several times
before firing up the soldering iron, as I don't want to have to solder the 25-pin IDC conector twice!
Cheers,
Alex.