video settings on install
Peter Hummers
phummers at iname.com
Sat Dec 2 11:24:20 UTC 2006
Paul Thompson wrote:
>
> is there anyway that I can control the video (xorg) configuration
> during the install. Both Dapper and Edgy install ok but the video
> settings are wrong and so the machine is unusable. X starts but the
> screen just goes mad.
That's happened with me on the two machines I've installed Dapper to,
and when X sits there looking bad, I shift-alt-F2 to get another
text-login session, in which I can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Changing the
default resolution to 16 and changing the modes for 16 usually work for
me. (No fancy video cards on my boxes -- 16-bit is enough for me. You
can experiment with what you know (think) your card is capable of).
Then I exit and go back to the X11 session (Alt-F7? I forget. I usually
just hunt around. I'm used to FreeBSD, which runs X elsewhere.) When I'm
there I restart X with control-alt-backspace.
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