hi, i just bought a new LCD 19" Display (VP912B), this monitor is superb if anyone one of you are gamers with a 12ms response time, anyways to my question - My old CRT was running at 1600x1200 and I upgraded to this new LCD which uses a maximum of 1280x1024 resolution. I plugged in my new LCD and started up Mandrake 10.0. Lilo appeared and I selected linux. I have my configuration to autmatically boot into Linux without a login prompt so what happens now is my LCD just turns black because most likely my resolution is too high. My question is how do I change it before X starts??? Also what are those other images used for in linux on the lilo prompt like fail-safe, linux-nonfb and those other images that are sets of numbers like 263 or other...I'm pretty new to linux so hope some of u can help me on this...thanks!!!

Hi,

Well 2 solutions:
1- When X is started type Ctrl+Alt+- to have a lower resolution. And then you'll be able to reconfigure X for next time
2- type Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login as root. Then type XF86config to reconfigure your Xserver with a text interface

fail-safe is a sort of safer kernel... For example if you recompile your current kernel and forget a critical option like your root FS type, your current kernel won't boot anymore... Don't worry you've fail-safe kernel to boot and correct you error
nonfb... I suppose that's a kernel without framebuffer support

Oliv'