Damn Small Linux - Not!

JaxTJ · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

We are having a particular issue with a modified version of DSL that appears on a bunch of xterm displays we have (P3-450ish, ~512MB RAM, ~40GB HDD). When ever we try to run [b]/KNOPPIX/usr/sbin/xsetup.sh[/b], the display resolution does not change. The /dev/hda1 is mounted as /cdrom and read-only, because of particular security issues unique to our site, and the fact that we don't want what are suposed to be essentially "dumb terminals" to cache anything from the network. The fs is RO, but even with a [b]sudo mount -o rw,remount /cdrom [/b]([i]example[/i]) which works fine, the changes are getting ignored and will not be persistant. What we need is to get the resolution set to 1280x1024 with out it consistently resetting to 1024x768.

Any ideas how to proceed with this? Is there something that I'm missing? I'm not a script debugger, but am not shy of vi or poking around to find what needs to be found. Any help would be appreciated.

kerry · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 13

Have you tried just running xsetup.sh in terminal as user DSL(remeber to exit than startx to take effect), then once you have the modified file copy that to /etc/skel to make it the default?

JaxTJ · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

[quote="kerry"]Have you tried just running xsetup.sh in terminal as user DSL(remeber to exit than startx to take effect), then once you have the modified file copy that to /etc/skel to make it the default?[/quote]

Thanks... I will try this after holiday. I know that most files are chown to root, so unless I do the sudo su, remount rw, most things won't work as needed. Ill take a look though and see if this will work for us.

Thanks,
-Travis

JaxTJ · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

[quote="kerry"]Have you tried just running xsetup.sh in terminal as user DSL(remeber to exit than startx to take effect), then once you have the modified file copy that to /etc/skel to make it the default?[/quote]

The eventual soloution for us ended up being in /cdrom/change_ip.sh in there the vga is set to 791, which is 1024x768x16 so we vi'd that to 794 ran the script in /cdrom(another instance existed in /KNOPPIX so we'd maybe want to change that one too) and the default resolution changed and has so far stuck without even having to run xsetup.sh.

Thanks for the help.

BeastlyKing · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

I have simular problem but i am a total NEWBIE.
My screen shows up all green & blue could someone PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

BeastlyKing · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

i Fixed It and it was just a matter of typing in a cheat code to turn on frame buffer. its "fb1024x768" i also figured out the code to load it in to ram "1024x768 dsl toram".