LAMP with ·dotmanila » xorg.conf http://dotmanila.com/blog Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL Musings Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:24:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1280×800 on Dell Inspiron 1501 with Slackware 12.2 http://dotmanila.com/blog/2009/08/1280x800-on-dell-inspiron-1501-with-slackware-12-2/ http://dotmanila.com/blog/2009/08/1280x800-on-dell-inspiron-1501-with-slackware-12-2/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:55:03 +0000 jervin http://dotmanila.com/blog/?p=84 Finally I got to free up this laptop to be an all around testing machine after I got my wife her new MacBook Pro. Since I’d like a little more education, I decided to get back to Slackware after a couple of years. Install went fine, nothing much has changed, as this what drives the distro and what attributes for it’s utmost stability, I am not so surprised.

One problem everytime I install a Linux or BSD variant on any laptop is the widescreen resolution. Except for Ubuntu and Fedora, much of them needs manual intervention to have their native widescreen resolution working on that particular distro, Slackware included.

To cut the story short, if you are installing X server for whatever dekstop manager you intend, the default xorg.conf configuration will not help with the widescreen. Simple really, just run xorgsetup, follow your instinct and startx. You should have your beloved widescreen back.

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