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Change resolution dont work in IRIX 6.2 - alexdedalus - 05-06-2024
I have an Indy R4400 200 Mhz 32 MB RAM 1 GB HD and 8 bit graphics with IRIX 6.2. The setmon -x 180x1024_60 command has no result, it is innocuous. But the setmon 1280x1024_60 command works without the "x". I need to maintain the 1280x1024 resolution at every boot, and I have to do it manually every time I restart Indy. Why doesn't the "x" work, if it worked in Irix 5.3?
RE: Change resolution dont work in IRIX 6.2 - robespierre - 05-07-2024
You must run the setmon command as the root user for its setting to be saved for future boots.
RE: Change resolution dont work in IRIX 6.2 - alexdedalus - 05-07-2024
I was certainly logged in as root, but the "x" makes the command have no effect, the command immediately returns to the prompt without causing anything: setmon -x 1280x1024_60.
The command: setmon 1280x1024_60 takes effect, having to command stopgfx and then command startgfx.
It's not an emulator, it's a real physical Indy.
RE: Change resolution dont work in IRIX 6.2 - robespierre - 05-07-2024
(05-07-2024, 06:23 AM)alexdedalus Wrote: the command immediately returns to the prompt without causing anything: setmon -x 1280x1024_60
Then that is working as intended:
Quote:-x The specified video format will take effect when the X server restarts (when one logs out from an X session) or during the next boot cycle.
To set the mode both immediately, and for future boots, you can use the -w option in place of -x.
RE: Change resolution dont work in IRIX 6.2 - alexdedalus - 05-08-2024
When giving the command set on -x 1280x1024 60, logged in as "root", after the machine booted, the previous resolution of 1024x768 returned.
Forgive me, but I forgot to say that after the setmon -x 1280x1024_60 command it gives me an error saying more or less that the command was not accepted (I didn't write down the result and the machine is off today, it's not every day that I turn it on her, I'm very busy lately ). Although in all available documentation and the command's "help" itself says to accept -x as a parameter, and as far as I remember, using IRIX 5.3 on this same machine, -c was accepted fine. Now I appreciate the help and will try the -w parameter.
If the command doesn't work, is there any file where I can manually configure the parameter to 1280x1024_60, without needing to use this "setmon" command?