Auto detect monitor resolution possible ?
by joboy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5HAXC)
Hi there,
Please excuse my ignorance, I am running Linux Mint Debian, is there a simple way to auto switch screen resolution, or fallback to VGA when connecting to a monitor not supporting the default resolution like on ms win ? I ask because I am running USB boot for trouble shooting problem and I will boot from any PC old and new, some times the PC only got a basic VGA monitor attached and I got no display due to 'out of range' of the monitor, I know I can modify the boot parameter to boot to VGA, but it would be best if the system can at least fallback to VGA from the default by itself, as far as I remember I could use Ctrl-Alt-BS to switch resolution on some early Linux distro but can no longer now, is there any way to do that ?
Please excuse my ignorance, I am running Linux Mint Debian, is there a simple way to auto switch screen resolution, or fallback to VGA when connecting to a monitor not supporting the default resolution like on ms win ? I ask because I am running USB boot for trouble shooting problem and I will boot from any PC old and new, some times the PC only got a basic VGA monitor attached and I got no display due to 'out of range' of the monitor, I know I can modify the boot parameter to boot to VGA, but it would be best if the system can at least fallback to VGA from the default by itself, as far as I remember I could use Ctrl-Alt-BS to switch resolution on some early Linux distro but can no longer now, is there any way to do that ?