Re: improve screen resolution

[Johan Scheepers <johansche@telkomsa.net>]

On 03/11/2010 17:15, Camaleón wrote:
> 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
>    

Well the short of it..it ends in  ..  ABORT.

Any suggestions for maybe a new card that is supported by squeeze?

Or a card that is more compatible with linux distros?

Now say I do replace the card.
How will debian handle it and maybe the other distros that I have on 
external disks without reinstalling.
Suse11.3, Ubuntu 10.10.
Thanks

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