[wplug] Starting and Stopping X More Gracefully

[Carl Benedict]

In the event that you are on a laptop or really old hardware, I've seen
this behavior when the color depth is too high.  You can change this
manually in the xorg.conf file.

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
#       DefaultDepth    8
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

"DefaultDepth" or "Depth" lines (maybe both).

HTH



On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 12:37, Brad Hoover wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I have been trying to iron out problems with x
> windows.  I would like to get 1024x768 (which I know
> both my monitor and video card can do), but right now
> I can only get 800x600, when I delete the 1024x768
> option from xorg.conf.
> 
> I am using fedora core 3, which by default starts x
> during bootup.  So when I make changes to xorg.conf
> and add 1024x768 as an ok screen resolution it tries
> to display it at that setting and when it fails my
> monitor just goes on standby.  I then have to
> ctrl-alt-del and boot from a rescue disk or in single
> user mode to make another tweak it and try again.
> 
> So my question is this:  Can I make X fail a bit more
> gracefully?  Can I make a change to the config file
> and then if it fails it gives me a command prompt
> instead of my monitor going on standby and forcing me
> to reboot?  Then can I stop and start x again without
> rebooting?  This would make it a heck of a lot easier
> and faster than my current method.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
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