But wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell the installation program to remove those offending lines, or replace them with lines of resolution you want? I know how to do it by editing the X files, and my system already boots that way. However my semi-literate wife would totally lose it if she were to accidentally hit <ctrl><alt><+> and all of a sudden her entire desktop vanishes and is replaced with this new jigsaw puzzle piece of her old screen. This is the way she would see it. She wouldn't recognize the her screen resolution just changed. She would simply reply that that was a stupid thing to do and it just confuses her, couldn't I just get rid of that? As it is she gets frustrated enough, because I have been a lousy system administrator and haven't set up her account by activating all those things she might someday want to use. I love Linux, but there are still a lot of little things that need tweaking to make it easier to maintain.

-----Original Message----- From: Chris Bier

Brian Densmore wrote: |>-----Original Message----- |>From: Leo Mauler |> | ... The issue I have is that be default it will create a 640x480 | screen, then 800x600, then 1024x768. | ... | but I'd like to be able to install X and get it | running at the resolution I choose or higher, not lower. | ... | I know my current desktop has the 640 and 800 options in the X files. | I've been to lazy to go and edit them out. <snip />

All you have to do is change the order of the modes in the screen subsection. ~ This is what the section from my home desktop looks like.

Section "Screen" ... SubSection "Display" ~ Depth 32 ~ Modes "1600x1200" "1200x1024" "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600" ~ EndSubSection