--- Alan Davies
I re-installed our SUSE linux (8.2) on a new box (with new monitor). resolution on next boot.
ISTR that CTL-SHFT with + and - should change the resolution -
once
you have started an X session - but nothing seems to work.
My advice would be for you to edit:
/etc/X11/XF86Config
Did that - logging in remotely. changed default to 800x600
Unless you know exactly what you're doing in XF86Config DON'T
manually
edit it.
Agh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you tell me.
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
run sax2 then run SuSEconfig then init5
"telinit 5" is more appropriate. Check the manpage.
Am I supposed to do this after starting in safe mode - or remotely - or doesn't it matter. Of course I have to do su command if I log in remotely.
Sorry Alan, "safe mode"? Basically "telinit" is linked to /sbin/init. What telinit does is it will shut-down those processes you currently have from your default init runlevel (defined in /etc/inittab), and then restart those other services in the one you specify). So, for example, let's assume your default run-level was 3, and your system had booted. If you were to issue: telinit 5 then the system would stop/start those services common to both 3 and 5 *and* start any extra services in init 5, without rebooting. And, yes, this has to be done as root so an "su" is needed. Does that help? -- Thomas Adam
-- Alan Davies
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