On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:50:46AM +0100, moggy wrote: > > i recently purchessed a debian disk "sarge" i think its called, it also > came with a live disk, that i thought i would have a look at first to see > how it works and how well i get on with it, however, after restarting my pc > and booting from the dvd rom and it does its little thing, the screen goes > black, and it has a little white box telling me to change the screen > settings/resolution to 1280X1024 60hz, which i can do in windows, and which > is also the manufactuers recommandation, the problum is i dont know how to > adjust the monitor or weather i really need to do this as there maybe > another way around the problum, i have been really looking forward to > getting a linux system but know little or nothing about how it works, hence > my trying the live disk first... any help would be greatly recieved. > thanks for your time... > looking forward to becoming a fully fledged and dedicated debian user. > moggy. keep on pluggin' moggy, your efforts will be worth it. Kent's advice is probably best for getting X working on the live-cd ctrl-alt-keypad+ will change the resolution that x is putting out. you can also try ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X altogether which may be helpful in that it should drop you to a command line interface. If that doesn't work, try ctrl-alt-f1 (or f2, f3, f4, f5, f6) which will just switch you over to a command line (called a virtual terminal) from which you can do various things to fix up the live-cd to work for you. finally, check the boot options when the live-cd comes up. there are various options to help it detect and set up the graphical interface properly. and really finally.... if you spend enough time messing around with getting the live-cd going, you could have already installed a full system (it doesn't take long...) so you might just go for it. keep asking questions, we're happy to help. A
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