Installer writes bogus Modes line ('"(--)" "NEOMAGIC(0):" "Panel" ...')

[Thomas Hood]

After installing Hoary preview, downloaded 23 March 2005, X came up on
my ThinkPad 600 in 800x600 mode rather than the 1024x768 of which I
know it is capable.

The problem was that /etc/X11/xorg.conf contained a Section "Screen"
with many bogus Modes lines:

    Section "Screen"
        ...
        Subsection "Display"
            Depth 16
            Modes "(--)" "NEOMAGIC(0):" "Panel" "is" "a" "1024x768" "color"
"dual" "scan" "display"
        EndSubSection
    EndSection

The result was this in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

    (II) NEOMAGIC(0): Not using mode "(--)" (no mode of this name)
    (II) NEOMAGIC(0): Not using mode "NEOMAGIC(0):" (no mode of this name)
    ...

I fixed the configuration file so that it looks like this:

    Section "Screen"
        ...
        Subsection "Display"
            Depth 16
            Modes "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
    EndSection

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Woah. Thanks; fixed in Hoary.