I've been given a nice laptop, a Sony Vaio about 800Mhz. I wanted to install linux, and went through a lot of hassle getting a version to work. Many wouldn't boot from CD, Antix wouldn't mount CD or flash drive, Puppy was lightning fast and fantastic but wouldn't complete install. Ubuntu is too slow. After burning a spool of CD's I tried Debian 5.0 Lenny, which passed with flying colours, easy install, fast and all working ...... except it gives me 800*600 screen res, and preferences gives no option to increase to 1024 by 768, so have a ten inch desktop on a 14 inch screen. Silly really.
I have googled for a fix. Not joking, this has been an issue for about four years. There's pages of discussion forums listed, all agree no choice in install and for some machines detection doesn't work, then the highest res given in the drop down in preferences is 800*600, and there's no way to change it.
Went to terminal and tried about a dozen of these fixes from various user groups. None worked. Either the commands given were not recognised or was told 'permission denied' - but I was in root!
Debian seems the most sussed linux version with a huge community maintaining and sorting. Tearing hair etc.
Any ideas?
Tony
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