screen not visible while booting

[Tom Rymes]

On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 02:15 AM, Chris Plummer wrote:

> I also have another somewhat related question. How do I get X to use a
> different resolution without running Xconfigure and simply limitting the
> maximum resolution it can choose from. I know about fbset, but I can
> never get it to set the resolution in a way that makes a screen readable
> (something is very wrong with the scanning). None of the modes in
> /etc/fb.mode seem to work with my monitor. It looks X knows about modes
> that are not in /etc/fb.mode and also knows how to choose a mode that
> works. I'm assuming the modes X knows about are the ones in
> XF86Config-4. How do I force X to use one of these modes?

I don't remember exactly, but to switch resolutions, hold down ctrl-alt 
and hit the '+' and '-' keys on the numeric keypad.

That may not be the exact key combo, but something close.

Tom