[YLUG] changing screen resolution from the command line

[Martin Leventon]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:04:24AM +0100, Craig Genner wrote:
> On Saturday 12 August 2006 15:37, Rachel Cavill wrote:
> > hi,
> > I've been a bit silly and now my screen resolution is set to something my
> > screen can't display - so everytime I try to run X I just get a message
> > from my monitor about hw it can't display.
> > I can get to a command prompt and have tried changing the screen resolution
> > using xf86config and xf86cfg but to no avail, when I reboot and start X
> > it's still broken.  I'm running mandrake 10 and the original change which
> > threw everything off was made from the mandrke command centre grphical
> > interface thingy. Any ideas how to gt back to a working screen resolution?
> > Thanks,
> > Rachel
> 
> I seem to remember from my Mandrake days that you can run the "mandrke command 
> centre grphical interface thingy" from command line.
> 
> Try (as root) running drakeconfig or similar.  Type drake and then tab to see 
> a list of options, one of those should make sense.
> 
> Otherwise it's Arthur's suggestion.
> 
> Craig

If you run the command 'mcc' you will get a menu with the same items you
get from the GUI, and you can setup your resolution there.