X and Fluxbox :: Resolution Change at boot

Emaynard. Yes, I believe I did. It was one of the first things I tried, so I'm not exactly sure. But if you create it from scratch it will work fine.

Tried this and for whatever reason it's still loading 1024x768x32 at startup.

Now I'm starting to doubt my remastering process. Are my changes truly being applied, etc..

Quote (Pickletech @ June 06 2005,14:56)

EUREKA!!!! It was the .xserverrc file! I got it all running beautifully now. The reason why my .xserverrc file kept getting overwritten is because i had the permissions wrong. I can't believe I didn't think to look at that earlier! This is how to do it:
as root create a file called .xserverrc in /mnt/hda1/source/etc/skel that just contains:

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exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa - mouse "/devpsaux",5 -screen 800x600x16 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I

then assign the right permissions

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chmod 700 .xserverrc

finish rebuilding and burn. You will notice that Linux will boot up in 800X600X16 resolution! Woohoo!

Pickletech,

Were you CHROOTed while doing these commands?

Got it.

turns out that because I was using an existing remaster version of DSL, I had to use the user structure it defined in place of DSL's default. In this case, I needed to add the .xserverrc file to the home directory of an account labeled "guest".

See this post on SF for details:
http://sourceforge.net/forum....=419458

Hope this saves someone else some pain....

original here.