On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:50 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've tried two different monitors, and both of them don't work with
> GoboLinux 016 DVD.
>
> The Dell just tells me that the video is out of range, and try to use it's
> native 1600x1200.
>
> The (newer) Viewsonic just shows flashing vertical colored strips.  Good
> thing I'm not
> an epileptic.
>
> Is it possible to boot the DVD up in "safe" mode at some "normal" video
> resolution?
>

Hi Bill,

Could you try running the two commands below?

$ Xorg -configure
$ startx -- -config xorg.conf.new

You may also make changes to the generated xorg.conf.new, as documented
here:
https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Running-under-VirtualBox


> I'd have tried searching the archives, but the search link on the
> gobolinux web site, to
> search.gmane.org, doesn't work, Firefox says search.gmane.org doesn't
> exist.
>
> ping search.gmane.org
> ping: unknown host search.gmane.org
>
>
gmane.org has been shut down recently:
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/

As an alternative, you may use the following resource to search the mailing
list archives:
http://marc.info/?l=gobolinux-users&r=1&w=3

Lucas
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