i've recently started playing around with some builds by Hexxeh and am
amazed at the quality of the OS.
the only problem is that i cannot find a way to change the screen
resolution: nothing in the settings tab, cannot edit xorg.conf when i
drop to prompt (system is mounted read only) and when i open the
terminal thingy with ctrl+alt+T all the commands can apparently not be
found
help anyone? i'd love to get this sorted so i can start to play around
with the code :)
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Zomzilla <cjohnpritch...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all,
> i've recently started playing around with some builds by Hexxeh and am > amazed at the quality of the OS.
> the only problem is that i cannot find a way to change the screen > resolution: nothing in the settings tab, cannot edit xorg.conf when i > drop to prompt (system is mounted read only) and when i open the > terminal thingy with ctrl+alt+T all the commands can apparently not be > found
Ctrl+Alt+T drops you into crosh, from there, type "shell" to get to a proper bash prompt. Alternatively, you can a prompt directly by switching to VT2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get back to ui).
From there, you can remount your root partition "mount -n -o remount,rw /" and edit the xorg.conf file or play around with xrandr, etc..
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Zomzilla <cjohnpritch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks very much; I didn't realize I would need to enter the sheet > with a command
xorg.conf shouldn't reset on reboot - that seems odd. Are you sure you switched it to read-write properly and the editor was able to save? Its probably worth double checking this - I've made this mistake in the past where the file didn't get saved like I thought it did.
I believe I've seen some bugs in the past on monitors underreporting their resolutions but those were usually for external displays with some weird chain of cables. If other distros are able to detect your card fine it seems like ChromiumOS should. The only thing I can think of is if you have different drivers which are doing odd things. I haven't done much with video drivers (well, anything) so I'm not sure of the state of that device on ChromiumOS - Hexxeh might know better.
Well maybe I should try again; I used a couple methods to switch to RW
yet both times the editor saved; when I checked after saving the
changes were still present. Is most odd.
You're using Hexxeh's build? I seem to recall a hack he mentioned a few months ago where he would modify the xorg.conf at boot time to do something with device detection based on what video card was in use. But I can't recall exactly why. So its possible that his build is regenerating xorg.conf and clobbering your changes.
I could be wrong or misremembering though - I'll see what I can find out. I don't have a copy of his builds to check on. You might want to look in /etc/init for any scripts that modify xorg.conf there though.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Zomzilla <cjohnpritch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well maybe I should try again; I used a couple methods to switch to RW > yet both times the editor saved; when I checked after saving the > changes were still present. Is most odd.
OK - Hexxeh just confirmed he does that. He said disabling the chromeos-lime initscript would prevent it getting modified. I assume that file would be /etc/init/chromeos-lime.conf and you can then comment out the 'start on ...' line).
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Kliegman <kli...@chromium.org>wrote:
> You're using Hexxeh's build? I seem to recall a hack he mentioned a few > months ago where he would modify the xorg.conf at boot time to do something > with device detection based on what video card was in use. But I can't > recall exactly why. So its possible that his build is regenerating > xorg.conf and clobbering your changes.
> I could be wrong or misremembering though - I'll see what I can find out. > I don't have a copy of his builds to check on. You might want to look in > /etc/init for any scripts that modify xorg.conf there though.
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Zomzilla <cjohnpritch...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> Well maybe I should try again; I used a couple methods to switch to RW >> yet both times the editor saved; when I checked after saving the >> changes were still present. Is most odd.
Ok I'll sort all that out later: thanks for all the help with this,
I'll be adding this issue to my list of tweaks to make (chromeOS
graphics seems to be in a bit of a state from what I've seen)
Hey guys I recently downloaded chrome os, it's giving me this problem on my dell Inspiron mini 9. And also you should know this via usb thumb drive. When it boots up the screen shows up and then goes blank, maybe you guys could help me, Its on a 800x600 resolution and my computer shows 1024x900.
xorg.conf should be in /etc/X11. You will need to use sudo to edit it. Not
sure what changes need to be made though, so hopefully the innfo you have
found will give you an idea.
On Sunday, March 10, 2013 5:55:02 PM UTC, Steve Pirk wrote:
> xorg.conf should be in /etc/X11. You will need to use sudo to edit it. Not > sure what changes need to be made though, so hopefully the innfo you have > found will give you an idea.
