no screen resolution

Alberto Milone albertomilone at alice.it
Wed Oct 10 02:36:43 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:07 +0100, Pantor wrote:
> One question: how to log in as root before to edit (save) xorg.conf?
> 
it depends on the distribution which you're using.

Try typing:

su
(so as to become root) and then launch the editor from the command line

OR:

sudo name_of_the_editor /etc/X11/xorg.conf

(e.g. sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

Alberto




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