TheLastColdBeer Posted April 17, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Posted April 17, 2013 Howdy all, Just a quick question for you daily Linux users. I booted up slackware on a live cd, but X doesn't like my monitor or video card. 19" flatscreen, 1440x900 native resolution. Can't remember what card I have, but it's a 500mg Radeon 4000 series. What argument(s) do I use to get a 32bit color display @ my monitor's native resolution? Should I use xinit with arguments rather than startx? so far: startx -- -depth 32 doesn't do much. startx self configure produces what looks like a vga resolution screen that is basically useless. Thanks! Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted April 17, 2013 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted April 17, 2013 (edited) by xinit you mean the file? I don't think it makes a difference between weather or not you put the arguments in xinit or pend them to the end of startx. It's just that if you don't put them in a file, they won't be saved. I'm prolly wrong though. Better turn to google... google will find you the answers for which you seek EDIT: btw, is this the "mobility radeon" ? Edited April 17, 2013 by eidolonFIRE
TheLastColdBeer Posted April 18, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Author Posted April 18, 2013 xinit is just another way to start a GUI from the command line. startx is the norm, but you can add aguments after the command to set parameters. If you're booting from a cd or thumbdrive, you don't have a file to initialize. You're booting from scratch, so you better get it right....lol. I didn't want to have to scroll through all the man pages to get my answer. If you've ever dual-booted Linux or compiled your own kernal, you know how user un-friendly it can get. Like the old saying goes, "Unix is user friendly, but it's choosey who its' friends are". Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted April 18, 2013 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted April 18, 2013 I love linux I recently built my own system. I started from Arch and chose I3 as my window manager. from there I added 100s of packages lol.
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