Slackware Screen Resolution problem

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Slackware Screen Resolution problem

Post by gordonmarkus » Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:53 pm

Hi All,

Apologies again for posting non tech show related posts here, but I am fast approaching the end of my tether...

After the success of the slackware 10.2 install on my office machine, I thought I'd have a bash on a spare box at home. Everything is working perfrectly, apart from I cannot get the screen res to anything other than 640x480. I've looked through loads of other forums and there is a lot of mention of the xorg.conf file and I have tried editing this, and also tried running xorgconf -textmode aswell, but this either makes KDE stop working or makes no difference.

I know that the graphics card and monitor can support 1024x768 at 24bit and beyond as it was running that with windows.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks people.

-Gordon.
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Post by Judland » Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:47 pm

When I'm having difficulty with configuration of Xorg, I use a Linux Live CD (like Kanotix, Knoppix, Archie, PCLinuxOS.... something that uses Xorg) to boot up with.

I watch the installer as it auto-detects my hardware, or even inspect the xorg.conf file itself after the Live CD boots up. That usually gives me the proper direction in my Xorg configuration with the distro. I'm trying to install and run on the system.
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Post by dann » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:40 pm

run xorgconfig or xf86config. Both are menu driven text setup tools. Know you hardware and the frequency settings for your monitor. That should set you up right. It's not that hard.

There are graphical tools, xorgcfg, xorgsetup and xf86cfg; but I like the text one better.
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location of xorg.conf in slackware

Post by treehead » Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:16 am

Judland wrote:... inspect the xorg.conf file itself after the Live CD boots up....
...which is located here in slackware 10.X:

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/etc/X11/xorg.conf
;i've actually done what judland mentions here. copy the file to your home directory and then you can copy the portions you need once you've booted back into slackware. your hard disk partion may be mounted read-only, so you may have to umount/mount it to be able to copy xorg.conf over.

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Post by gordonmarkus » Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:14 am

Alright all,

damn you guys are good! I downloaded the kanotix live cd, found that my graphics card is a built in intel jobby, ran xorgconfig back in slackware and now everything is looking good!

Thanks all.

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Post by Judland » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:56 am

Awesome!! 8)
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