I need help and fast with my ubuntu system

jessica_lilly · 11-20-2007, 05:50 AM

hello

i need my ubuntu system to boot in 600x800 and i have told it to boot as something like 1024x768 or something and i have to boot in rescrue to see anything so i get the command line how to i change what it boots in at by the command line

stealth_banana · 11-20-2007, 06:03 AM

In the menu.1st file in /boot add the following to your kernel lines.

vga=771

I am assuming you want it at this before you start the GUI environment.

Other codes you can use are:

Code:

Color depth      | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
-----------------+-------------------------------------
256        (8bit)|  769      771       773      775
32000     (15bit)|  784      787       790      793
65000     (16bit)|  785      788       791      794
16.7 Mill.(24bit)|  786      789       792      795

If it is in X, then set it as your default once its started, it should remember.

jessica_lilly · 11-20-2007, 06:05 AM

so i just type something like

vga=771

then

startx

and it should work

pixellany · 11-20-2007, 06:17 AM

Read again what stealth posted.....The instruction was to edit the file menu.lst in the /boot directory. (Actually, it's /boot/grub/.menu.lst)

But, please give us a clearer description of what you want to do. For example, in X-Windows, the default resolution is in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf You can edit this by hand or you can use a tool such as xorgconfig or xorgsetup. If you need to set the resolution for text mode (X not running), then you would use stealth's method.

jessica_lilly · 11-20-2007, 06:21 AM

ok thanks for your help i have got this fixed the stupid way i re-installed ubuntu probly the worst way to get around this but anyway

pixellany · 11-20-2007, 11:26 AM

No....re-installing is often the very BEST way to solve a problem. Glad to hear things are working.

jessica_lilly · 11-20-2007, 12:11 PM

thanks i often do things like that because im a noobie and find stuff very hard to do

thanks for all your help