How to change installation resolution? (1.3.01)

[pandronic]

Hello,

I'm trying to install 1.3.01 on my old laptop and the installation resolution is 1024x768. My laptop is only capable of 800x600. Is there a way to change it? I vaguely remember that in 1.2 there was.

Thanks

[dracheflieger]

From the ncurses setup, go into the Utilities, then the emergency shell and edit out any reference to 1024x768 in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. If there is no 800x600 there then replace the 1024x768 with 800x600. Exit the editor, save it, exit the emergency shell, exit the utilities and hit OK. Don't know if that will work but it's probably your best chance.

[pandronic]

From the ncurses setup, go into the Utilities, then the emergency shell and edit out any reference to 1024x768 in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. If there is no 800x600 there then replace the 1024x768 with 800x600. Exit the editor, save it, exit the emergency shell, exit the utilities and hit OK. Don't know if that will work but it's probably your best chance.

Thanks that worked ... after I finally figured how to edit a few characters using vi ... the horror, the horror

The problem is that the installer doesn't scale at all, and I could only see the upper-left part of the window. I had to navigate blindly using TAB, while looking on another computer at some screenshots of the installer.

[wrx]

Thanks that worked ... after I finally figured how to edit a few characters using vi ... the horror, the horror

Hehehe You just press the "i" key (when not in command mode) to enter edit mode and :w to write/save the file and :!w to enforce writing I think. :q to quit and :!q to exit without saving. Or just press Ctrl+C to lose all the changes....

Last time, thanks to dracheflieger, I learned about "ee" which I prefer over "vi" and now I also know it is possible to configure X.org manually by going to the shell prompt.

[TerryP]

The exclaimation point has to be at the end or it will pass it to the command line.

Compare:

:!q
zsh: command not found: q
q: exited with status 127
:!ls
PORTS_MEGS              foomatic-gswrapper      ports-supfile.EN
Personal                foomatic-rip
:q!
rstf@Vectra$                                                              17:48

:command!

forces the action.

< Vi Addict >

[dracheflieger]

Better yet, ee is available

[wrx]

:command!

oops ops: Sorry, yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for that