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Offline E.J.

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How to change Xorg resolution?
« on: November 23, 2010, 09:48:37 PM »
Hi.

I seem to be stuck in a spot. I want to change my X resolution, but I don't know how.

I load the Xorg-7.5-3d extension, and it's dependencies, on boot. It automatically selects the highest resolution for my monitor (1440x900), and I want to change it. How do I?

I've already dropped in a xorg.conf copied from Puppy Linux into the '/etc/X11' folder, but on reboot the PC freezes at the desktop. I had to delete the 'home' and 'opt' folders, before rebooting into TCL.

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: How to change Xorg resolution?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2010, 10:38:16 PM »
To switch resolution while X is running use xrandr

To get a different default resolution in Xorg you could check documentation about editing xorg.conf

Also you might wanna try to use only the needed lines from your puppy xorg.conf
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Re: How to change Xorg resolution?
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2010, 12:20:47 AM »
Load lxrandr.tcz, this gives you a GUI to change screen settings.