[K12OSN] desktop resolution issue

Gideon Romm ltsp at symbio-technologies.com
Wed Feb 22 00:21:06 UTC 2006


Also try "vga=791"

-Gadi

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:12 -0500, Gideon Romm wrote:
> You may need to add a kernel command line option to set the video
> framebuffer to 1024x768 (some laptops are funny that way).
> 
> See:  http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/KernelOptions
> 
> and try adding the kernel command line option:  vga=0x318
> 
> -Gadi
> 
> PS:  I'm not positive this is the problem.  Just a guess.
> 
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 15:54 -0500, William Fragakis wrote:
> > I've googled to no avail. I hope someone can help. We've built a cart 
> > of IBM Celeron laptops which are thin (wayfast) clients off of 4.4.1 
> > running on a P4 server with Intel i865 (iirc) video.
> > 
> > So far, so good. Issue is that I've tried to set the desktop at 1064 x 
> > 768 but I get a 800 x 600 resolution on a 1064 x 768 desktop - the 
> > funky one whose edges go past the edge of the monitor. When I go to 
> > preferences, it shows that I'm in 1064 x 768. The only fix is to choose 
> > another resolution then go back. Then I get real 1064. However, when 
> > the server restarts, the issue returns.
> > 
> > I've hardcoded 1064 in lts.conf both with and without additional 
> > resolution info and still get the same problem. I'm sure it's something 
> > simple but what am I missing here?
> > 
> > btw, we are using GNOME on kdm so we can automate login if that matters.
> > 
> > regards,
> > William Fragakis
> > morrisbrandon.com
> > Morris Brandon Elementary
> > 
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