Can't change monitor resolution
  • jacatonejacatone
    PMPosts: 18
    Wanted to try a live boot of lxle on an old pentium 4 32-bit machine  using the last v18. The resolution is 179x1344 which is too small. When I try changing it I end up seeing a username password screen and have no idea what to enter. It'll no doubt just take me back to the incorrect resolution again. Is there anyway to fix this?
  • Mr_LinuxMr_Linux
    PMPosts: 72
    Live CD username is qwerty and there is no password for root. 

    The gui lxrandr is used to change the monitor, if you want you could try the terminal version xrandr. If you type the command xrandr into the terminal prompt, you will be shown the default resolutions available.  If the display is too small there is a trick in there, you can scale the screen by percentage.
    Type this at the prompt
    $ xrandr 
    Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1360 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
    HDMI-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    VGA-0 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 16mm x 9mm

    This shows which output I am currently using. Next I use this information to increase the display 10% bigger. (1496x845)

    $ xrandr --output VGA-0 --scale 1.1x1.1

    This reduces it 10% smaller (1224x691). 

    $ xrandr --output VGA-0 --scale 0.9x0.9

    To reset back to normal scale.

    $ xrandr --output VGA-0 --scale 1x1

    You may need to tweak it with the --panning <w>x<h> options. The lxrandr is a nice GUI frontend, but there is so much more. 
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