[SOLVED] Auto-Detect New Monitor in KateOS?

[devils casper]

Lilo and GRUB are Boot Loaders. Most distros are using GRUB as default Boot Loader these days. /boot/grub/grub.conf ( or menu.lst ) file has GRUB configuration and /etc/lilo.conf serves as Lilo's conf file.

I think I'll move onto checking out display of the X Windows side of things while I'm about it, so that info you folks have advised me on will be useful also.

Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and output of this

su -
lspci | grep -i vga

[reed9]

I think I'll move onto checking out display of the X Windows side of things while I'm about it, so that info you folks have advised me on will be useful also.

You're looking at X, but this thread has inspired me to run without it for awhile. Thanks!

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...tml#post685306

[PastAsNew]

You're looking at X, but this thread has inspired me to run without it for awhile. Thanks!

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...tml#post685306

Excellent! I'll follow your thread with interest. Nothing like jumping in the deep end sometimes is there

[PastAsNew]

Yes I can confirm that KateOS 3.6 is definitely using GRUB.

I'll post up the output from lspci over the weekend, tomorrow hopefully. I've done it and piped the output into a file ... and now realise I need to either mount a USB drive and/or set up the network to my Linux PC before I can get the output to the big wide world. Highly educational this is all becoming! I think I'll do both as part of my learning endeavours ... all suggestions gratefully received

Incidentally, I notice that menu.lst seems to effectively be pointing at grub.conf ... what actually is it that is going on here, and what is the terminology?

[devils casper]

RedHat based distros use grub.conf file. Other distros uses menu.lst file and its symlinked to grub.conf.

[PastAsNew]

RedHat based distros use grub.conf file. Other distros uses menu.lst file and its symlinked to grub.conf.

Got it ~ thanks.