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New to Slitaz, problems with screen resolution
  • Trying Slitaz both live and installed, I get an odd resolution of 1024x600, so I have to scroll up and down to see the top/bottom of the screen, but the lower 2 thirds of the icons on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen are still not showing.

    Looking at the documentation, I read that tazx should let me choose a resolution. Tazx doesn't appear on the Slitaz menu (Preferences or System Tools would seem logical), so I tried running it from a command line. It does not offer any resolution choices, and the dialog is rather confusingly written. The 3 options are:

    xorg Install or configure Xorg
    text Disable X autostart
    quit Quit Tazx utility

    Firstly, the word starting each line shouldn't be showing, as it looks confusing. Second, what happened to the option to choose resolution, as mentioned in the handbook: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:xwindow#tazx-slitaz-x-configuration-tool ? On the same subject, that document could usefully say how to run Tazx. Or does Slitaz not have this option in Tazx now?

    I was under the impression that my system, running live and on initial install, would use Xvesa rather than Xorg, and if there's a way of getting Tazx to give me a sensible resolution without too much effort, then I'd rather do that than start messing about with Xorg.

    In case it's relevant, here is what lspci | grep VGA shows:

    VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

    This is the built-in graphics chip on one of VIA's early mini-ITX motherboards. This low energy system is going to be used to run things largely unattended, such as aMule, and having accelerated 2D or 3D graphics is not really important, but seeing the whole screen would be nice! I don't really want to install applications until I can get the resolution issue sorted.

    Any pointers?

    Thanks,
    Mark.
  • mojomojo April 2010
    Xvesa was removed from slitaz-3.0 in favor of xorg
    Make a backup
    cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bkup

    then open in text editor
    Section "Screen"/Subsection "Display"
    Add-> Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
    Try Depth 24 first
    Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill xserver
    Login root pw root
    type
    slim
    enter
    to restart xserver
    if xserver refuses to start
    use nano to edit xorg.conf from console
    or
    cp  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bkup  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  • jozeejozee April 2010
    I think this pkg in repos works on via chipsets: xorg-xf86-video-openchrome
  • TaoTao August 2010
    Hi, after Wine install on hard drive Slitaz 3.0 Xvesa, x size has shrunk to occupy central portion of screen with surrounding black border. All else is fine but I can't seem to restore original screen size, which occupied all screen area and was set to 1024x768x24. Changes I make in tazx don't help. I'd really like to resolve this without reinstallation of Slitaz and abandoning Wine. Many thanks in advance. Tao.
  • TaoTao August 2010
    PS: would add that I had this problem with all Slitaz Xorg distros (out of the box) - so perhaps this problem is something in the installation of Wine that causes Slitaz to lose Xvesa and revert to Xorg?

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