[greedo]

My minimal Ubuntu boots into the /dev/tty1 console on runlevel 5 (automatically as root with no password lol) and I use it to fsck/fdisk/mke2fs other partitions. Running startx gives me X and ratpoison. Anyway, I booted into the console and tried this:

Xorg :0 -configure

which ran and the last line in the log said

No devices to configure.  Configuration failed.

I searched around, and so far have not found anyone who got an xorg.conf successfully created with -configure.

If you actually get it to work, let us know how you did it.

[zeugma]

If you actually get it to work, let us know how you did it.

So far I'm getting similar results.

NVidia has a really cool program for generating an xorg.conf file for you, but unfortunately this isn't an NVidia Vid.

At this point, I'm pretty sure my solution is going to be to generate a good and tight xorg.conf file, but I'm going to have to do some more research on that. Again, my biggest problem is the way the problem presents. I only get the 'rain' on screen after the thing has sat overnight, or a similar long period of time has passed. Fortunately, I really don't use the console on this box very much. It's pretty much an over-engineered music player for the most part, though I do have a bunch of vids on it for when I run out of books to read. (which doesn't happen often).