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06-12-2003, 08:39 AM
iomari

1280x1024 resolution

i currently have 4 distros installed on my system. Mandrake 9.1, SuSE 8.2, Redhat 9 and Knoppix 3.2 6-6-2003. I have been using knoppix since feb of this year and I have never been abble to get a resolution of more than 1024x768. I am using a Radeon 7000 with 64 meg ram and every other distro can get 1280x1024. Even when I manually edit the Xfree86 file it still refuses to enter full res. Any ideas.
06-12-2003, 09:41 AM
garyng

I may sound dumb, but have you tried copy over the XF86Config-4 file from the distribution that can give you higher resolution ? I am assuming the XFfree86 binaries are compatible.

If using the same config file and you still cannot get the resolution you want, I am afraid you may need to find(or build) your own X, or may be the kernel.
06-12-2003, 03:38 PM
kaplanfx

you can set it at boot.

I don't know if you are talking about a HD install but when I boot knoppix, at the boot prompt I always type screen=1280x1024. This will start X in 1280x1024, then if you do a HD install the resolution should remain the same.
06-12-2003, 06:31 PM
rickenbacherus

Re: 1280x1024 resolution

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Originally Posted by iomari

i currently have 4 distros installed on my system. Mandrake 9.1, SuSE 8.2, Redhat 9 and Knoppix 3.2 6-6-2003. I have been using knoppix since feb of this year and I have never been abble to get a resolution of more than 1024x768. I am using a Radeon 7000 with 64 meg ram and every other distro can get 1280x1024. Even when I manually edit the Xfree86 file it still refuses to enter full res. Any ideas.

I have a Radeon 7200 and I boot like this:

screen=1280x1024 xmodule=ati which works quite well. You could always boot that way, copy over the XF86Config-4 and try that. This way you also have DRI and GL set up and you'll be using the Radeon xserver.