Gonna try that tomorrow, thanks.
Help Configuring Default Screen Resolution?
(33 posts) (14 voices)- Started 13 years ago by loner
- Latest reply from dandielionous
- This topic is not a support question
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Only with the xvesa version of slitaz stable 3.0 am I able to choose a resolution greater tha 800x600. As far as I can tell there is no xvesa version of slitaz cooking. Also, with the xorg version of slitaz stable 3.0, in addition to the resolution isssue, I have the terrible problem of the "X" cursor erasing portions of the screen image as it is moved across the screen. This is not a problem with slitaz cooking, but I would like to have an xvesa version of slitaz cooking so I could use a resolution greater than 800x600.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterThere might be a issue with making a SliTaz 4 Xvesa flavour because Xvesa has been discontinued by it's developers in favour of X.org or so I've heard. We can still create a Xvesa flavour, but some newer cards support will fall to the way side.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Pete
offlineMemberI also have been bothered by the lack of easily set screen resolutions and the fact that almost all linux distros ( and Slitaz seems headed this way) seem to be set to come up in the highest screen resolution supported. Why not 1.) have an easy to use GUI appplication to set the monitor resolution in X-window once booted, 2.) Also why not come up in 800x600 or 1024x768 so that people with smaller monitors do not have to get a magnifying glass to read the screen. Having an easy way to set screen resolution is something most other linux distros have in an easy to find menu item.
I hope that when 4.0 stable comes out, if not before, that something is done about selecting X-window screen resolution to make it easy and much less painfull.Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterI think the closest you're going to get to that is lxrandr, which comes with most LXDE based distros (like Lubuntu). SliTaz also has tazx to help setup your graphics card properly because the generic driver isn't the best if you want to play OpenGL or SDL games.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I followed your instructions on this thread. Unfortunately, however, I only got so far and I got this output in the terminal which in part reads: "insmod: cannot insert 'lib/modules/2.6.30.6-slitaz/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.
ko.gz' : No such device
modprobe: failed to load module nvidia: No such file or directory
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module specific error, 0)
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"I hope that is enough info to tell what happened. I am new at all this. What did I do wrong if anything? Please let me know if you need more information. TY.
Posted 13 years ago # -
mojo
offlineKey Master@Rob
Start a new thread with this info.
Are you using slitaz-3.0.iso or a flavor ?
Post output from:
lspci -nn | grep -i vga
Test internet connection from console:
Login root password: root
#tazpkg rechargePosted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredThis might be helpful to someone.
My screen resolution was not settable to 1680x1050 until I did this:
I use ATI (3200 sapphire motherboard graphics) with HD3450 plugin card and followed the instructions on this page:
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:xorg-xvesa
choosing to install the Radeon driver instead of Catalyst.# tazpkg get-install linux-agp
# tazpkg get-install linux-drm
# tazhw setup atiAs a result my etc/X11/xorg.conf was modified only very slightly.
Section "Device"
Driver "radeon" . . . whereas before it was "vesa".
The screen resolution is now set correctly to 1680x1050 and my spider button is perfectly circular.
A quick check of width and height in pixels is also possible by using an lxpanel width and height display as a ruler.Ultimately I want to get all my 3 screens (each 1680x1050) working as one big desktop.
That is what I have been using with ATI Catalyst on Xubuntu for over a year.
I have not yet been able to get the ATI Catalyst drivers working with Slitaz, though I have made progress as one screen is now at the correct resolution.Posted 13 years ago #
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