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Re: [ecs] linux video settings Ingo Pakleppa Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:01:38 -0700

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OK, they try using find to see what has changed in the past 30 minutes:

find /etc -mmin -30 -print

should do it (note that using -30 is important. Else you'll only find
files that were changed *exactly* 30 minutes ago). If /etc doesn't work,
try /var (but you'll get some unrelated hits there).

Also, it could be in your home directory, maybe the setting is specific
to individual users.

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 07:17 -0700, Mark Gilmore wrote:
> hi ingo,
> thanks for the info.
> I modified the screen resolution via "Configure Desktop" (Knoppix),
> and then saw that no files in \etc\X11 had been modified.
> I also looked in XF86Config-4 to verify that no resolutions were stored there.
> Regards,
> mark
> 
> 
> At 06:32 AM 8/13/2005, you wrote:
> >It depends on the distribution and the version of XF86 that you have. On
> >my system (SuSE 9.3), it is in xorg.conf. XF86Config is a soft link to
> >it. You say that for you, it's not in XF86Config - what makes you think
> >that it is not?
> >
> >Also, some kernels allow you to switch to a graphics mode during
> >booting, and it seems that the bootup graphics mode can impact the X
> >windows graphics mode later (although I'm not sure about the mechanism;
> >it may simply be a matter of incomplete video card initialization, or
> >something like that). The bootup graphics mode is controlled with a
> >kernel parameter in grub.conf (or whatever the file is called in your
> >distribution) or lilo.conf.
> >
> >On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 05:46 -0700, Mark Gilmore wrote:
> > > might anyone know in which file linux stores it's video settings (spec
> > > screen size and refresh rate) ?
> > > it's *not* in XF86Config.
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Mark Gilmore
> > > http://OmnipotenceSoftware.com
> > >
> >
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