John R. Sowden wrote:
On Mon October 31 2005 21:40, John R. Sowden wrote:
Today I took my desktop home to access our dsl to download the latest open office. I booted into a blank screen after the first grub menu. I was unable to determine how to insert custom boot parameters.
Is there a reasonable way to set up a different menu selection in grub to access a monitor with less resolution, or just different parameters?
I found a site on google that showed a chart of video ram vs resolution with hex values in the field. I put vga=0x31F in a new menu item in grub's menu.lst. This allowed the computer to display the boot process, but when it started in kde it went blank, as kde apparently does not check the resolution in current use.
How do I deal with this? Another use for a solution: having an external monitor on a laptop, and wanting to use the higher resolution of the ext mon v the built in screen.
At the grub boot screen, type in a 3, which will cause boot to stop before starting KDE. Log in as root, start mc, migrate to /etc/X11, and make a copy of xorg.conf with some other name. Then start sax2 to recreate xorg.conf with settings suitable for the current display. When that's done, copy the new xorg.conf to some third name. Whenever you need to make the switch again, do as above, except leaving out the sax2 step, instead just copying the appropriate xorg.conf backup file to xorg.conf. When done, do init 5 to start up KDE. You may find you'll want to just use the config for the lower resolution display in order that your desktop window position memories don't keep getting moved around. -- "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/