topic title: Can't change screen resolution [Solved]
Posts: 20
longtom
Joined: 28 Nov 2011
#1
Hi,

after running AntiX in A VB I tried a life install. That wasn't as successful. I can't change my resolution to 1280 x 1024. When I try all I see is gibberish on the screen. I am locked in 2048 x 1543. My eyes hurt ....

Using:

2.0 Celeron
1.2 Gb ram
Nvidia GeForce FX5200 Ultra
19" CRT Monitor (LG)

Change the vga entry in grub to 788. Didn't help.
Any ideas welcome
Last edited by longtom on 01 Dec 2011, 18:02, edited 1 time in total.
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#2
Try installing the driver from NVIDIA, maybe. With the sgfxi script.
Posts: 20
longtom
Joined: 28 Nov 2011
#3
secipolla wrote:Try installing the driver from NVIDIA, maybe. With the sgfxi script.
That worked fine, thank you - I can change the resolution. Problem is now - it doesn't stick and I need to redo it every time I log out and back in again. Any way I can make this stick?
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4
Maybe this xrandr how to will help ya.


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Edit: OOPs it's for GDM, sorry.

For Fluxbox


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Here is some stuff from the Debian Documentation project also.


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buttcoffee
Joined: 20 Aug 2010

01 Dec 2011, 04:52 #5

you could also try this
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another thing you could try is, if you have"hwinfo" installed, you can open up the terminal, go to root, then type"hwinfo --framebuffer" in without the quotes. It will come up with sommething like this

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 Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe076ffff (rw)
  Mode 0x0360: 1280x800 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0361: 1280x800 (+2560), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0362: 1280x800 (+5120), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
pick the resolution you want and change the vga entry in grub to one of the numbers after"mode" like"vga=0x0317" Each video card uses their own special vga code, so your is probably different.
Posts: 20
longtom
Joined: 28 Nov 2011
#6
Thank you to all for trying to help. The best I got was a correct resolution but suddenly the screen was to small and I had to use the mouse to reach the extends while the desktop moved in all directions on the screen. Interesting - but not what I wanted.

I need to get this to work - kind of basics really...

I do realise the forum is sparsely visited so I won't get my hopes too high ... __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 20
longtom
Joined: 28 Nov 2011
#7
Got it going by installing some Nvidia stuff in Synaptic and running nvidia-settings as root .

Thanks again to all who tried to help. I'll mark this as solved.

Now - up to the next mission. Print on a network printer running on Windows - up, up and away ....