I have an announcement..........

[MyndFyre]

This is the first time I'm accessing x86's forums from LINUX!  I finally figured out how to get Slackware to load ndiswrapper....  so here I come baby!  w00t!

Now.....  HOW can I change my video settings so that I can run at a resolution other than 1024x768?  My laptop is widescreen...  it supports up to 1440x900.

[Newby]

ndiswrapper?

I'll assume a program I have never used and/or something related to wireless.

Congratulations, by the way.

Now, you're off to Mozilla to pick up Firefox and Thunderbird, correct?!

[MyndFyre]

ndiswrapper?

I'll assume a program I have never used and/or something related to wireless.

Congratulations, by the way.

Now, you're off to Mozilla to pick up Firefox and Thunderbird, correct?!

Actually I picked up the "leet world-humping fox" before I stopped by. 

[Newby]

Well then, you're on top of things.

Psst...what's your hostname? <3

[Ergot]

This is the first time I'm accessing x86's forums from LINUX! I finally figured out how to get Slackware to load ndiswrapper.... so here I come baby! w00t!

Now..... HOW can I change my video settings so that I can run at a resolution other than 1024x768? My laptop is widescreen... it supports up to 1440x900.

I believe it's somewhere in your xorg.conf, you add it under the monitors section. Hopefully, you don't an ATI chip, or you should just shoot yourself to save yourself time.

[Newby]

Or run xorgconf.

Although, you're probably better off just modifying xorg.conf, as some of the stuff I configured in xorgconf was confusing.

[Ergot]

Wait, unless he's some super linux user and doesn't even use X! Then, I'm not sure what you have to do to change the non-graphical part, if you find out, please inform me because I need it for my 2.6.10 kernel !

[iago]

The loading screen thing part is actually a kernel option, I noticed. 

And yes, run xorgconf and then edit the resulting file by hand, adding anything necessary.

You may need additional drivers/work/drugs to get your video card working properly, though.  MIcrosoft has their hands in far too many manufactorers' pockets.

[Ergot]

Pff, Nvidia drivers rock linux.

[Quik]

ndiswrapper?

I'll assume a program I have never used and/or something related to wireless.

Congratulations, by the way.

Now, you're off to Mozilla to pick up Firefox and Thunderbird, correct?!

Actually I picked up the "leet world-humping fox" before I stopped by.

Teh leet globe-humping fox.

[MyndFyre]

Wait, unless he's some super linux user and doesn't even use X! Then, I'm not sure what you have to do to change the non-graphical part, if you find out, please inform me because I need it for my 2.6.10 kernel !

LOL yeah right.  The pointing and clicking stuff has grown on me.  I still have every DOS command ever invented memorized (good luck getting me to use "ls" instead of "dir", by the way) because I used it so much when I was a chillun.

I would have you just enter in "mode con cols 80 rows 50", and then tell you to make sure you have the DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file, but I don't think that'll do it. 

[Ergot]

I liked DOS, it's not a hard typing "dir" will still give you the directory listing, but "ls" won't do that once you get back on DOS :[. I was working on a friend's computer and I kept typing "ls" and being ticked off! MyndFyre would "mode con cols 80 rows 50" change the screensize to 1024x768 ?

[MyndFyre]

I liked DOS, it's not a hard typing "dir" will still give you the directory listing, but "ls" won't do that once you get back on DOS :[. I was working on a friend's computer and I kept typing "ls" and being ticked off! MyndFyre would "mode con cols 80 rows 50" change the screensize to 1024x768 ?

No; it would give text mode an 80-column 50-row screen as opposed to the standard 80-col 25-row screen used by default in DOS since 3.33 (before it was 40x25, or uberfat).