Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:37:29AM -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently installed debian Sarge3.1_r0a, and have two
> problems. The first one is that I'm unable to set the
> screen resolution higher than 800x600 even though I
> had it at 1280 x 1024 in Fedora Core. Could this be
> some kind of driver issue??. Any ideas?.
>
> My other problem is that my login screen doesn't have
> the option to reboot or to shutdown the computer, so I
> have to log in as root everytime I want to shutdown
> the computer and do it manually. How can I fix this?.
>
Which display manager (kdm, xdm, or gdm) do you have installed? xdm
doesn't have the reboot or shutdown choices; one of the others should.
Anyway, you shouldn't have to log in as root, you can use sudo.
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