I have tried out quite a few Linux distro's but i always keep comming back to Slitaz. And the only reason that i have not installed Slitaz to the hard-drive is because i cannot configure the screen resolution from the default value of 800x600 pixels to something like 1024x768 pixels. Could someone help me please?
Help Configuring Default Screen Resolution?
(33 posts) (14 voices)- Started 13 years ago by loner
- Latest reply from dandielionous
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Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredhi loner,
You need the right Xorg driver to have a better resolution. For that you can use 'tazx install-xorg'. Loading the right kernel modules & restarting Xorg, or rebooting is needed. If better resolution is not setted up automaticaly – which's always the cases when you don't reboot – you can do it manually using xrandr (pkg: xorg-xrandr) or lxrandr (only with cooking). You can use 'tazlito writeiso' to generate a liveCD including the driver: A cleaner way is to use flavors: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:genlivecd
Posted 13 years ago # -
loner
offlineMemberI opened a terminal and typed: xrandr and from the output i saw that there were only two options, which were: 800 x 600 and 640 x 480. So unless this issue is addressed in the next stable release of Slitaz which will be Slitaz-4.0? Then user's like myself will not be using Slitaz which will be a great shame.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredAs I said you have to install the good Xorg driver.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterMake sure you're online and then do the following:
1. Go to terminal
2. Type su and press enter/return
3. Enter your root password and press enter/return
4. Type tazhw detect-pci and press enter/return
5. Type tazx and press enter/return
6. Pick xorg Install or Reconfigure Xorg and click OK.
7. Allow it to download the package lists, then pick the card type closest to your own and click OK.
8. Allow it to go through all that setting stuff and then close the box.
9a. For Stable: Now in terminal type wget http://www.trixarian.za.net/downloads/lxrandr.tazpkg then type tazpkg install lxrandr.tazpkg and press enter/return
9b. For Cooking: Type tazpkg get-install lxrandr.tazpkg
10. Go to Red Spider Button---> Preferences---> Monitor Settings to change your resolution.Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterI forgot to mention you have to install the xorg-xrandr package for lxrandr to work properly. So just add the additional step of going tazpkg get-install xorg-xrandr to the above.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterMaybe you could help us out a bit more and tell us which ATI Rage card you have. For example with ATI Rage 128, you need to use modprobe -v r128 but it varies from card to card. Normally the tazhw --detect-pci should automatically detect and load this kind of module, but sometimes it does fail.
Posted 13 years ago # -
mojo
offlineKey MasterFollow my instructions here:
http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/12674#Comment_12674Posted 13 years ago # -
I tried with no success. But I may be confused here.
Do i install everything in order as per instructions
or
only what is indicated as in"install linux-agp.tazpkg" for the intel card
or
"install xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0.tazplg" for ati cardIn the Device area my driver shows up as Versa (or something like that)
Install linux-agp.tazpkg for:
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
Add intel_agp to /etc/rcS.conf LOAD_MODULES=
Install: xorg-xf86-video-ati-6.9.0.tazpkg
For: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
Kill the xserver (Ctrl+Alt+bkspace)
Login as root pw: root
tazx
choose reconfigure xserver
ok
reboot
You should be able to get 1024x768 resolution
If this fails open /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Should see:
Section "Device"
Driver "ati"Posted 13 years ago # -
xoanan
offlineMembersame here; after I reset everything, it went back vesa
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSectionSection "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/X11/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/"
EndSectionSection "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSectionSection "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSectionSection "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSectionSection "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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