:) :) :D thank you for all your guidance sorry for not replying earlier but it was quite late for me At the moment I am very satisfied with my 1024x768 resolution wont mess up more for now anyway salix will be my secondary OS (and probably my liveUsb OS!!) I have to play around a lot and learn as so...

;) As I said I am veryvery new in commandline first contact with salix I had to figure out how to add a line in my GRUB :o second thing the resolution linus72 your post seemed absolutely ....greek to me at first (I am greek :shock: :P ) -xconf doesn't exist in /usr/bin -grub / lilo I cant touch (I ....

root[~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04) 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Sy...

:oops: Ok Now I think I have a pretty silly question but I'm stuck I 'm very very newbie trying to change screen resolution that's been stuck to 800x600 as I have understood I have to go to command line and run "Xorg -configure" but when I open a terminal as a root I take a message _______...

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thank you all for your help!!!

:evil: :roll: I THINK I've SOLVED IT __________________________________ timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=118c7d25-5f55-48cf-a870-f76db7e7de20 vmalloc=256M resume=UUID=041c81e4-05a2-49ac-9...

a semi automatic option to add a linux entry ended in the folowing menu.lst ______________ timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=118c7d25-5f55-48cf-a870-f76db7e7de20 vmalloc=256M resume=UUID=0...

hm! I've already started playing the magician _____________________________________________ timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=118c7d25-5f55-48cf-a870-f76db7e7de20 vmalloc=256M resume=UUID=...

I 've been using linux for some time now but I admit I haven't yet got into command line and editing etc!! :( My pc runs under PCLINUXOS which starts with grub I 've run across SALIX very recently and I admit I quite liked it!!! Since my livecd resolution stops at 800x600 and I 'dlike to see more of...