Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 14:27:11 10/24/03
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On October 24, 2003 at 16:26:58, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >hello Christophe, > >as a big linux expert, and me a very poor amateur there, >i have next problem. > >my monitor broke down. 19'' IIYAMA (saw some postings from Bob here and while >laughing for them my head danged against the monitor). under linux i had running >1280x1024x100Hz vertical. > >my temporary replacement monitor cannot handle this frequency and tomorrow (so >in 10 hours) i want to play The King under linux and after that against Tiger. > >In windows it is very easy. i bootted and pressed while booting f8. then i >used 'boot VGA mode' and then i set there a new resolution, rebooted and it >booted fine. > >In linux i have no clue what to do. it automatically starts X here of course. I don't know if this is the best solution, but it should work. First boot linux into single user mode. If you use lilo, then at the boot prompt do this: boot: linux single If you use grub, then you will have to hit 'e' to edit the boot parameters, and add the word 'single' to the end of whichever line you want to boot. For instance, mine looks like this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi I changed it to this to get into single user mode: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi single Then (if you're using grub) hit 'b' to boot whichever line you have selected. That should get you into single user mode. Then you can modify your XF86Config file (probably in /etc/X11/). You will probably need to modify the Monitor section and the Screen section to values that will work for the other monitor. man XF86Config or search the web if you need more help on that. Then you can go to run level 5 (graphical mode) by typing 'telinit 5' at the command line. Or you might want to go to run level 3 first (telinit 3), and do 'startx' so that if your new settings don't work it will dump you back into run level 3 and you can go make other changes. I actually have my default run level set to 3, so that it always boots into run level 3 (text command line). Then I just have to type 'startx' to get into graphical mode. If something doesn't work I don't have to go through the trouble of booting into single user mode.
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