screen resolution?

[Lowell Premer]

The X is a capital (all linux [unix] is case sensitive) all the rest are 
lower case, and it's installed already; just type that word at the 
command prompt. Uh-oh, you've got it set to boot into the GUI interface, 
don't you? To go to a CLI (command line interface) try ctl-cmd-big 
delete; if that doesn't work, try opt instead of cmd. If THAT doesn't 
work, I give up...:-)
    To make yourself root (do you log in when you boot, or does the GUI 
just start?) when you're at the command line type "su" (no quotes) and 
give the root password. You should have set all this root v. user stuff 
up when you installed; did you? If not, I don't know what to tell you; 
every install I've ever done has requred me to give a root password and 
then offered me the chance to give myself a user identity in addition. 
Let us hope this happened for you, 'cause without root, there's A LOT of 
stuff you can't do AT ALL... Actually I KNOW you have a root account; 
it's impossible that you don't, doggdone it! You may be root all the 
time; I've seen that happen. If so, give yourself a user identity 
IMMEDIATELY; it's possible to do BIG damage messing around as root. 
After you do that, only "su" to root when it's absolutely necessary, 
like now to run "Xconfigurator"...

Joe Abbiati wrote:

>Thank you for your reply.  I did not indicate more than one resolution 
>setting becuse the instructions recommended not to.  Where do I find 
>"xconfigurator" and how do I know if I am changed to root.
>
>It's fun to learn a new system, but some are more intuitive than others.
>
>Thanks.
>Joe
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