Monkey Linux and X

[Doogee]

hey all,

ive just installed this distro of linux on my shitbox, i mean my pentium 100mhz and i installed the 5 floppy disk distro of linux that runs off dos. i got it installed and it works great, did i mention it includes X?
anyway i fire up monkey and type startx, and im almost rejoicing as i see your everyday X startup process (black cross et c) and then i get in and oh my god its disgusting 300x200 res. how can i change the res to say 800x600? i was thinking of running XF86Config but i really dont know what it asks about, i got the monitor for free, i dont know all this sync rate shit. anyway how can i change the res on this thing?

[JH]

First of all try pressing Right-Ctrl/Right-Alt/+. It's very probable that your X have some other resolutions but it starts with the default one and you can switch them.

Be careful with XF86Config, I mean with the Vertical refresh rate, I'd suggest you to select the widest at first. XF86Config will ask you some questions about your mouse type, video card and amount of memory on it, monitor. Just save your old config files and have some fun with your tries.

[Doogee]

i got all this hardware for free i dont lose anything if it blows up but really a monitor imploding is not what i need here. its an old compucon monitor (i dont know if there a worldwide brand or not) err no OSD (some OSD's these days have nice info like that) i mean no funny sounds come out of the monitor with the default settings, nor do i smell burning, but really, 300x200 hehe ill give that a go.

[Doogee]

nope didnt work hrmm maybe ill have to put those s3 drivers on there. bummer too big for a floppy disk, how do you do that thing to split files again?

[JH]

Use split

[Calum]

use 'split -b 1400000 nameoffile' (or use a lower number if you have some bad sectors on your disk or you are using less than double density disks) and you get a number of files named xaa, xab, xac et cetera and then you stick them on a floppy each, then when you have them all in the same place on your new computer you use cat to stick them together again. if you only hAVE TWO BITS, 'cat xab >> xaa' sticks xab on the end of xaa for example, making a complete file, now just rename xaa to whatever the file was in the first place, and hey presto.

[ February 17, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: Member # 81 ]