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Thread ID: 65898 2006-02-03 19:39:00 Linux - reducing screen resolution to enable boot up personthingy (1670) Press F1
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426881 2006-02-04 08:43:00 OK, so Mepis uses GRUB and not LILO ... :p

It is a little bit harder with GRUB, ....

Not really as far as I remember - at boot time you interrupt the boot process and push E to edit the boot parameters. I think you just put "3" on the end of the line resulting in a CLI when you proceed.

... or at least something like the above - I would have to reboot to test it! 		johnd (85)
426882 2006-02-06 22:33:00 For anyone interested, this is the modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
I've marked the changed lines in red, where it once said "Modes "1024x768"" it now says; "Modes "800x600"", and at the bottom marked line i removed "1024x768" from the list of MetaModes. Its quite possible i didn't need to make all these changes, but this worked, so all is good.


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
# Only the official NVIDIA driver supports twinview
# these setting are an example
Option "TwinView" "false"
Option "SecondMonitorVendorName" "unknown"
Option "SecondMonitorModelName" "unknown"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-82"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-75"
#Option "MetaModes" "1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480"
Option "MetaModes" " 800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "dfp,dfp"
EndSection

Thanks to all who helped me get there. 		personthingy (1670)
426883 2006-02-06 23:44:00 Of course X Window gives a way to change the resolution. :D

Ctrl/Alt /+ increases resolution; Ctrl/Alt/- reduces it. I forget whether you have to use the keypad +/- which might be a problem on a laptop, but '-" on a standard keyboard doesn't need shift. (Maybe using the shift key as well to get "+" might work). 		Graham L (2)
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