Re: improve screen resolution

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:26:33 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:

> On 03/11/2010 14:25, Camaleón wrote:

>> My bad. In squeeze it is called gdm3:
>>
>> /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop
>>
>> And follow the rest of the steps..
> 
> ** (gdm3 : 2656) : Warning :  Failed to aquire org.name.displaymanager
>         "           "             "           could not aquire name :
> bailing out.
> Then the next command also balks.

Uh? :-?

Well... you have to understand what we are trying to get with that. The 
goal is to kill the X server (your X session) in order you can run "Xorg -
configure" command.

If killing gdm3 does not work, you can try by calling "init 1" ("init 1" 
is single-user mode with no graphical server) and run the command from 
there.

So jump to a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1), login as root and run:

init 1

Re-type root's password to get into maintenance console and follow the 
last steps:

cd /etc/X11/
Xorg -configure

If something goes wrong (or you feel in panic :-P), you can always return 
back to your "safe place" by:

su - youruser
startx

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón