Boot up screen wrong size - Solved

[Woo58]

I had problems with the X server during an LXDE install due to an old graphics card. Now when I start up or shut down the "Booting System/Shutting down" message is in the middle of the screen but the LXDE picture only take up a quarter of the screen and is positioned in the top left hand corner. Is this an X server screen resolution issue, if so how do I change it.

[Woo58]

On further investigation it appears to be a problem with the Plymouth screen. It is as if the screen resolution is too high. The progress bar appears a lot smaller than that on my other LXDE install. The Plymouth images I can find in GFXboot are all 800x600. How do I resize the Plymouth screen or do I need to resize the images.

[Woo58]

During the original install I had the problem of the graphic card not being recognized. Running PCC I chose the Nouveau driver to enable the install process to complete. I decided to change the Graphic driver back to the Nvidia Geforce 4MX one and this seems to have solve the resolution problem.

[Yankee]

How do I resize the Plymouth screen or do I need to resize the images.

Hi,

If you go into terminal and run gdmsetup, then click the local tab, and then select
other screens will change the login screen.

In /boot/grub/menu.lst you could erase "splash=silent" to eliminate that screen.
In LXDE there's a configuration menu option called EZSwitch.   Look in there for
other screen selections also.

regards,

FF