Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

[Brandon Richards <hobbes34@gmail.com>]

ok i found the directory and the file how do i edit it?  do i go into
vi or emacs and edit it there or what?  as i said before i am a very
new linux user.  thanks.

As soon as i get all this stuff down i am sure it will click i am a
very fast learner.

Thanks again,

Brandon

On Apr 8, 2005 6:58 PM, Kfir Lavi <kfirlavi@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 April 2005 02:43, Brandon Richards wrote:
> > another problem developed.  i have stable installed.  when i got it
> > installed it wont let me into the graphical interface due to the fact
> > that i think i chose the wrong install option.  when i installed i
> > chose the vga driver option but then i chose the colors as 24.  now it
> > wont boot into the graphical interface.  i found a website to help but
> > cant figure out how to rpm the package into the directory.  please
> > help.  website is:
> > <http://www.hpcc.uh.edu/~tonyc/sony/linux-main.html>.
> >
> > Thanks for any help u can provide.  also there is no
> > /etc/x11/xf86config directory in my system.
> 
> This is the file you will need to edit as root:
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> 
> Find the section:
> Section "Screen"
> 
> and after change this:
>        DefaultDepth    16
> 
> maybe your DefaultDepth is 24, change it to 16.
> 
> Then restart the X server.
> 
> 
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