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Posted: June 19 2004,23:44 QUOTE

Hi All,

I am a super-newbie to Linux.  I did a hdd install of DSL with minimal problems.

Besides gLinks-H not working (need to resolve that) I cannot get the damned screen resolution right. I had to go with Xfbdev xserver for this old IBM Thinkpad 380XD. (The Xvesa gave me the correct resolution with funny green colors) And the screen res is off the screen!

Any easy help to fix this would be greatly appreciated!
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Posted: June 20 2004,01:48 QUOTE

Hello again,

I guess I jumped the gun a bit on this problem. I figured it out by doing what I should have done (and it ain't finding the right post!) piece together a fix from a millionother posts and google searches! For those of you still having this prob here's how I fixed it:

Open Xterminal
at the prompt type: "sudo su" you are now a SUPER USER!
then type:             "cd /etc/" you changed to the etc dir
then put in:            "nano lilo.conf"

here you will get the nano editor to hack your LILO config. I changed the very first line to vga=789. I must thank Crotalus at this point, his post ROCKED!

I thin did a "ctrl X" to exit. It asks if you want to save (don't get scared by the DESTROY warning) type Y. It will prompt to write to the lilo.conf file, hit ENTER.

you should now be back at the /etc# prompt

type:                    "lilo" this will have the loader re-read the lilo config file

reboot now and you should be at the right settings!

good luck!
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