A bit of help, please

[dorsalfin_salsa]

Hello, I've installed the newest version of slackware, and I'm not very good at working the system. I have two questions...

My screen size is set at 640 by 480 and that's the only size I can select from. How do change it to something higher?

I can't get my sound to work. How can I fix this?

Thanks for any help!

[dylunio]

Sound: If you have the you should be able to fix this with

alsaconf

in a terminal as root, and then you can set the mixer settings with

alsamixer

and store the settings with

alsactl store

Screen size: You can try changing with Ctrl+Alt+ the + or - buttons on your numpad. If nothing happens you must edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and in the section regarding resolutions, add some, this is an example of the resolution part of my file:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "VESA Framebuffer"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Once it is save press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X and now you should be able to use Ctrl+Alt+ the + or - buttons on your numpad to change the res.