[Solved]Unable to change resolution
Posted: 20 Jul 2016, 18:35
After discovering Porteus last week and tinkering with it on my laptop(I love this distro so far!), I decided to take every PC in my house, completely get rid of Windows and install Porteus on each one of them. All of them worked flawlessly, except my main computer(because duh... things go wrong on the important stuff only ).
So, what happened? Well it isn't anything critical, but it is quite annoying. After installing Porteus, I noticed that the screen was a little blurry - sign that the display isn't at the right resolution. I checked the settings and I was right. Porteus is set at 1024x768, but my monitor's optimal resolution is 1366x768.
I thought it was because I hadn't installed the drivers for my video card(NVidia GeForce GT 630) yet, so I went and did that. (By the way, what do you recommend? Official drivers(from their site, or from a USM package) or the Nouveau drivers?)
I installed the "nvidia-driver-352.63-x86_64-3_slack.xzm" and the "nvidia-kernel-352.63_3.10.17-x86_64-3_slack.xzm" packages, moved them to /porteus/modules, and rebooted.
After rebooting, Xorg spits out two error messages, one about "X.conf being invalid; deleting configs" and one about "falling back to modeset" or something similar. They flash for a second before loading XFCE, so I can't see them clearly(also, the screen is a bit blurry, remember ).
XFCE loads normally, and the system is okay, but I still can't make the resolution higher(I can make it lower now, though).
Any tips or ideas how to fix this? I spent a while to fancify XFCE, and a blurry screen doesn't fit my definition of "fancy"...
So, what happened? Well it isn't anything critical, but it is quite annoying. After installing Porteus, I noticed that the screen was a little blurry - sign that the display isn't at the right resolution. I checked the settings and I was right. Porteus is set at 1024x768, but my monitor's optimal resolution is 1366x768.
I thought it was because I hadn't installed the drivers for my video card(NVidia GeForce GT 630) yet, so I went and did that. (By the way, what do you recommend? Official drivers(from their site, or from a USM package) or the Nouveau drivers?)
I installed the "nvidia-driver-352.63-x86_64-3_slack.xzm" and the "nvidia-kernel-352.63_3.10.17-x86_64-3_slack.xzm" packages, moved them to /porteus/modules, and rebooted.
After rebooting, Xorg spits out two error messages, one about "X.conf being invalid; deleting configs" and one about "falling back to modeset" or something similar. They flash for a second before loading XFCE, so I can't see them clearly(also, the screen is a bit blurry, remember ).
XFCE loads normally, and the system is okay, but I still can't make the resolution higher(I can make it lower now, though).
Any tips or ideas how to fix this? I spent a while to fancify XFCE, and a blurry screen doesn't fit my definition of "fancy"...