Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-11-19 Thread jidanni
>> > "PG(" == Peter G (nephros) writes: >> PG(> I think it is .modeset=0 (e.g. "radeon.modeset=0"). >> PG(> I use both: "vmlinuz foo radeon.modeset=0 modeset=0" which does work. OK, I finally figured it out: $ zgrep -c modeset /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.32/Documentation/kernel-parameters.t

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:52:00PM EDT, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Allow me to ask a stupid question. Permission granted. > You see, when that happens, whatever that was on the screen goes away. > Nor was most of what was on the screen at that point stored in dmesg or > in any /var/log/* file,

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-24 Thread jidanni
> "PG(" == Peter G (nephros) writes: PG(> I think it is .modeset=0 (e.g. "radeon.modeset=0"). PG(> I use both: "vmlinuz foo radeon.modeset=0 modeset=0" which does work. How does one determine the driver name to use? At one reboot per test and with all the unsuccessful combinations I've trie

Re: [ltp] Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-24 Thread Peter G. (nephros)
Hodie IX Kal. Nov. MMX AUC quidam/quædam/quoddam 'jida...@jidanni.org' inquit: Fabian Henze said: "nomodeset" is the parameter you are searching for. I tried it. $ cat /etc/debian_version /proc/cmdline squeeze/sid BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=...9dc78 ro single panic=33 nom

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:52:00 +0800, jidanni wrote: > Allow me to ask a stupid question. O.k, but better if you don't cross-post :-) > Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and > becomes a different resolution. (...) Different resolution? You mean the console text

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-23 Thread jidanni
Fabian Henze said: > "nomodeset" is the parameter you are searching for. I tried it. $ cat /etc/debian_version /proc/cmdline squeeze/sid BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=...9dc78 ro single panic=33 nomodeset It didn't work. > But why would you want disable that? http://bugs.debian.

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 02:52 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Allow me to ask a stupid question. > > Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and > becomes a different resolution. > > [ 8.135936] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle > [ 8.137762] processo

how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-23 Thread jidanni
Allow me to ask a stupid question. Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and becomes a different resolution. [ 8.135936] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle [ 8.137762] processor LNXCPU:00: registered as cooling_device0 [ 8.144690] Switching to clocks

Re: how to change resolution

2008-12-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > abdelkader belahcene schreef: >> Hi, >> I want to change screen resolution not only for user (it is done from >> the menu), but for every body as root. >> There is no mode resolution in last version of xorg.conf ? >> in previous there was >> modes with diffrent resoluti

Re: how to change resolution

2008-12-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
abdelkader belahcene schreef: > Hi, > I want to change screen resolution not only for user (it is done from > the menu), but for every body as root. > There is no mode resolution in last version of xorg.conf ? > in previous there was > modes with diffrent resolution 800x600, 1024 .. > > tha

how to change resolution

2008-12-17 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to change screen resolution not only for user (it is done from the menu), but for every body as root. There is no mode resolution in last version of xorg.conf ? in previous there was modes with diffrent resolution 800x600, 1024 .. thanks for help

Re: How to change resolution in X-window?

2002-06-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Markus wrote: > > I have a very simple but irritating problem: I have > started (right after installation of Debian) startx > and now it automatically starts every time the system > is started. The resolution is though way too low > (340*240 or something) and this causes huge > difficulties in try

Re: How to change resolution in X-window?

2002-06-05 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 02:24:51 -0700 (PDT) "Markus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a very simple but irritating problem: I have > started (right after installation of Debian) startx > and now it automatically starts every time the system You probably installed kdm/xdm/gdm. You can either remove

How to change resolution in X-window?

2002-06-05 Thread Markus
I have a very simple but irritating problem: I have started (right after installation of Debian) startx and now it automatically starts every time the system is started. The resolution is though way too low (340*240 or something) and this causes huge difficulties in trying to get even to the basic

Re: change resolution

1999-11-23 Thread Evan Moore
i am using debian @ work so i am using lilo. I tried the vga=791; however on reboot, i got a blank screen. The system started up, i edited my lilo.conf file (blindly) and rebooted. Ahhh now I can see. So i am thinking that i need to do other stuff to get this working, what else did you do? thanks

change resolution

1999-11-23 Thread Evan Moore
I use linuxppc at home, and i can easily change the resolution of the VSs, but at work I am stuck in 640x480, is there some way of getting more resolution out of the VSs? I have tried vga=ext in my lilo.conf, but am unhappy with the result. I would love 1024x768, the same res I run X. thanks in ad