:) :) :D
thank you for all your guidance
sorry for not replying earlier but it was quite late for me
At the moment I am very satisfied with my 1024x768 resolution wont mess up more for now
anyway salix will be my secondary OS (and probably my liveUsb OS!!) I have to play around a lot and learn as ...

;)
As I said I am veryvery new in commandline
first contact with salix I had to figure out how to add a line in my GRUB :o
second thing the resolution
linus72 your post seemed absolutely ....greek to me at first (I am greek :shock: :P )
-xconf doesn't exist in /usr/bin
-grub / lilo I cant touch (I ...

root[~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated ...

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Ok Now I think I have a pretty silly question but I'm stuck
I 'm very very newbie
trying to change screen resolution that's been stuck to 800x600
as I have understood I have to go to command line and run "Xorg -configure"
but when I open a terminal as a root I take a message ...

I marked solved
thank you all for your help!!!

:evil: :roll:
I THINK I've SOLVED IT
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timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=118c7d25-5f55-48cf-a870-f76db7e7de20 vmalloc=256M resume=UUID=041c81e4-05a2-49ac ...

a semi automatic option to add a linux entry ended in the folowing menu.lst

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timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=118c7d25-5f55-48cf-a870-f76db7e7de20 vmalloc=256M resume=UUID ...

hm!
I've already started playing the magician
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timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=118c7d25-5f55-48cf-a870-f76db7e7de20 vmalloc=256M resume=UUID ...

I 've been using linux for some time now but I admit I haven't yet got into command line and editing etc!! :(
My pc runs under PCLINUXOS which starts with grub
I 've run across SALIX very recently and I admit I quite liked it!!!
Since my livecd resolution stops at 800x600 and I 'dlike to see more ...