I have Sony VAIO FX-340K laptop. I installed antiX 8.5 and there's no problem then. But, after I upgrade the OS to antiX 11, the only resolutions it detected were 800x600 and 600x480. There's no 1024x768 resolution as in antiX 8.5. What's the problem and how to solve it?

mine is a fresh install antiX 11 and I cannot get permanently off 1600x1200 Control Center > Session > Set Screen Resolution gives 1024x768 but upon reboot reverts. I've never been brave enough to set in keyring as I couldn't discover what that meant.

If you install the correct propriatary drivers for nvidia/ati then that should auto-set the resoution.
If not, you would need to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Best way to do that is by using the smxi/sgfxi script.

1. Ctrl Alt F1 to kill X and take you to a virtual window.
2. Login as root
3. Type sgfxi -zc and follow the instructions.
This script creates a basic xorg.conf that shoud correctly use the resolution.
4. Once script has finished, type startx

Thanks for your answer, anticapitalista. Unfortunately, my antiX partition got ruined before I try it. So, after I gave it some thought, i think i'll stick with antiX 8.5 again. Anyway, antiX 11 is surely better than its predecessor. Keep up the good work __{{emoticon}}__

anticapitalista wrote:If you install the correct propriatary drivers for nvidia/ati then that should auto-set the resoution.
If not, you would need to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Best way to do that is by using the smxi/sgfxi script.

1. Ctrl Alt F1 to kill X and take you to a virtual window.
2. Login as root
3. Type sgfxi -zc and follow the instructions.
This script creates a basic xorg.conf that shoud correctly use the resolution.
4. Once script has finished, type startx

Hi Anti

I got a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 with a 32 MB nVidia 420go. I also had 8.5 installed and running nicely initially. After apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Things changed. I have two problems, the second one being related to the one discussed in this thread:

1. slim starts, I can enter passwords but then there is no session intiated and I am thrown back to ALT-F1 console. From there I can start slim, select session icewm (which is the default) and log in without problems
2."sgfxi -zc" starts, when I move on"1 yes-create-xorg-conf-file", then it detects the GPU and suggests to install the nvidia 96.43.19 version driver, but quits saying"Error (226) ..." and that that version of GPU driver is incompatible with XORG 1.10.
3. I do have a problem with the logging out/shutdown too. If I select the gui dialogue,click on log out or shutdown button, the dialogue window freezes, no logging out/shutdown is done but I can continue using Antix, opening a terminal and halt the laptop there or press the power button to halt the laptop
4. If I leave the laptop unattended, it freezes after some time. guess it has to do with either power managment or screen blamking (no screensaver ctivated).

can you help me here?

greets
chris