Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:28:59 10/25/03
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On October 24, 2003 at 17:27:11, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. The best solution is to boot into the console in the first place. <g> Dave
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