Fluxbox Resolution Cycles

[crabbyman6]

Forgive me if this was posted once, but I can't find a similar problem ANYWHERE, even the almighty google...

I just installed fluxbox on RH 9.0. First off, I had to force some rpm's to install because fluxbox needed an older version of it, so that might be the problem I don't know. So I run fluxbox for the first time and when I type anywhere it just cycles through screen resolutions. I loaded gnome then and it did the same exact thing, it doesn't type at all, it just cycles through the resolutions. This does not happen when I'm in the pure command line (runmode 3 I think) but only in X. Its more than likely an XFree86 problem of some sort, but I have no idea what seeing as I'm a linux newbie. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[serz]

Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config

Search for "Screen Section", for DefaultDepth and resolutions and "Monitor Section" to check if sync's are ok.

[crabbyman6]

Thanks for the help serz, I found the problem though and I figured I should post it so other people can find it easier than I did. Apparently my XKeysymDB (whatever that is, i'm a noob), got messed up somehow and I needed to redownload it. For a temporary solution I changed the XF86Config to : "XkbRules" "xfree86.lst" (i think it was .lst, i'm not at my linux computer now) and it used the rules fine, not sure why though. The XKeysymDB file can be downloaded here:

http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/xc/lib/X11/XKeysymDB?rev=3.17&content-type=text/plain

Definately backup XKeysymDB first though, just in case. Hope this helps someone else and saves them the hours of searching I had to do on the substandard other linux forums :)

[mdwatts]

Good job crabbyman6 for being a newbie and doing the research to figure out and fix the problem. Well done.