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Posted: June 06 2005,19:55 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: June 07 2005,16:44 QUOTE
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..

:(  :(  :(
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Posted: June 08 2005,13:17 QUOTE
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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
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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?
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Posted: June 10 2005,17:39 QUOTE
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....  :)
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