Re: [SLE] booting to different monitors

From: Felix Miata (mrmazda_at_ij.net)
Date: 11/01/05

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    John R. Sowden wrote:
     
    > On Mon October 31 2005 21:40, John R. Sowden wrote:

    > > Today I took my desktop home to access our dsl to download the latest open
    > > office. I booted into a blank screen after the first grub menu. I was
    > > unable to determine how to insert custom boot parameters.

    > > Is there a reasonable way to set up a different menu selection in grub to
    > > access a monitor with less resolution, or just different parameters?

    > I found a site on google that showed a chart of video ram vs resolution with
    > hex values in the field. I put vga=0x31F in a new menu item in grub's
    > menu.lst. This allowed the computer to display the boot process, but when it
    > started in kde it went blank, as kde apparently does not check the resolution
    > in current use.
     
    > How do I deal with this? Another use for a solution: having an external
    > monitor on a laptop, and wanting to use the higher resolution of the ext mon
    > v the built in screen.

    At the grub boot screen, type in a 3, which will cause boot to stop
    before starting KDE. Log in as root, start mc, migrate to /etc/X11, and
    make a copy of xorg.conf with some other name. Then start sax2 to
    recreate xorg.conf with settings suitable for the current display. When
    that's done, copy the new xorg.conf to some third name. Whenever you
    need to make the switch again, do as above, except leaving out the sax2
    step, instead just copying the appropriate xorg.conf backup file to
    xorg.conf. When done, do init 5 to start up KDE. You may find you'll
    want to just use the config for the lower resolution display in order
    that your desktop window position memories don't keep getting moved
    around. 

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