[Gllug] Screen Resolution

[David Irvine]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 15:29, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Using the Xconfigurator tool (or editing the config file by hand) you
> can choose a number of resolutions and colour depths.
> 
> As others have mentioned the CTRL+ALT+[+-] cycles between them.

If its for the console you can use a frame buffer device which will
allow fancy stuff for the console, you can use fbset to change the res
without rebooting

hth

David


> 
> Cheers
> Xander
> 
> On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 16:25, will wrote:
> > James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Is there an easy way to change the Screen Res in LInux?
> > 
> > 
> > Ooooh!  Something I actually might know!
> > 
> > For console, add the line:
> > 
> > vga=ask
> > 
> > to the lilo.conf file and I think you then have to re-run lilo.  You 
> > will get prompted for a resolution at boot.  For X, I just edited the 
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.  You may well be able to change the X 
> > resolution using the xf86config tool, but I never had much luck with it.
> > 
> > All this was on RH7.2 and it may well be different for a different 
> > distro.  You may all now flame me for the innaccuracies in my answers :-)
> > 
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