screen resolution
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Sep 9 23:27:48 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 11:05 -0400, Dylan Semler wrote:
> On 9/9/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 02:28 +0100, Thufir wrote:
> > I'm just starting to research screen resolution. I want to
> safely
> > increase my screen resolution, but first need to make notes
> on how to
> > recover, via the fedora rescue CD, in the event things go
> wrong.
> >
> > At this point I'm just thinking aloud, but please do chime
> in! :)
>
> Once again I am confused. The way I change screen resolution
> is:
> 1. switch to a terminal [crl-alt-F1]
> 2. change to init level 3 [ init 3]
> 3. Use : system-config-display to change resolution [it will
> adjust
> xorg.conf]
> 4. Change back to init level 5 [init 5]
>
> The screen resolution options available in system-config-display are
> determined by what's in your xorg.conf. If your xorg.conf isn't
> properly set up then you won't be able to use that utility to change
> to your desired resolution without making some changes to xorg.conf.
>
> Also, for a one-liner for changing screen resolutions without leaving
> x, check out xrandr (which has the same limitation as
> system-config-display I mentioned above)
>
As far as I know the only thing that affects screen resolution that
cannot be done with in system-config-display is the video card
identification. But as always I am willing to learn something new.
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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