change baremetal default resolution
Submitted by Kenneth D Foster on March 20, 2007 - 12:48pm.
is there anyway to change the default resolution of the baremetal version of Moka5 to 1280x1024, or something greater than 1024x768?
I have some LivePCs that are set up as 1024x768 and I would like to get to the menu bar without having to drag the screen all around trying to find it.
There is an Etc/X11
Submitted by Kenneth D Foster on March 21, 2007 - 1:28pm.
Found the X11 directory in the /etc directory. also found the xorg file but its called xorg.conf.in. no where in it does it look like the screen resolution is described. there is a "screen" section though I couldn't see how i would change the resolution using it.
So, a little more help please.
In case you can't tell i'm not really a great unix guy.
xorg.conf should exist.
Submitted by Kevin W on March 21, 2007 - 1:37pm.
xorg.conf should exist. Just create the /cache/X11 folder using ... mkdir /cache/X11
Since my xorg.conf shows using a DefaultColorDepth of 24, changing the Nodes for Display with Depth 24 would take care of the resolution.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
...other Depth Displays removed
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Kevin
Ok, did everything you suggested. still not working
Submitted by Kenneth D Foster on March 21, 2007 - 2:52pm.
copied /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /cache/X11/xorg.conf.fc5
modified it to look like this:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Left in the file but removed from here all to the colordepth 24
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Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200"
EndSubSection
After the s in Modes I put one space before the open quote.
I tried 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1680x1050,
None of those resolutions seem to work. I'm only putting one resolution in, hoping it will just pick that one, but right now it just seems to default to 1024x768, and thats not even in the config file.
any more hints you can throw me?
on a side note, when I put in 640x480 it definitely decreased it.
Got it
Submitted by Kenneth D Foster on March 21, 2007 - 3:19pm.
Since i'm using the VESA driver I had to change the horizontal and vertical refresh rates to be the same as what the /usr/share/xorg/vesamodes said they should be.
what a pain in the behind.
Thanks for all of your help.
Use F5 to open a
Use F5 to open a terminal.
Place your xorg.conf in /cache/X11/xorg.conf.fc5 and it will persist across reboot. You can use the xorg.conf from /etc/X11 as a starting base.
Check the Section "Screen", Subsection Display to adjust/limit the resolution available.
Kevin