> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to change the resolution on my terminal to 1024x768 on
> my laptop. I read on the Internet that I should compile the kernel with:

Every time I have a problem with X I seem to find that installing PC-BSD and looking at their settings to see how they got it to works. Unless you value your time at $1USD/hour, it'll be cheaper to get a used or low capacity replacement drive and experiment on it that.

And sometimes you have to bite the bullet, and go with something like Xubuntu that is lightweight, and and yet has all the drivers and such.

http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.xubuntu.org/

I use xubuntu right now on my home laptop since Christmas, and can vouch it works excellent on my Toshiba, especially after I installed a package that had all the microsoft codecs/fonts/etc. I also installed the Mac core fonts as well, and was surprised at how many websites look better with the fonts the designer intended them to be viewed with.

I hate running any server with Linux. Hate. Hate. Hate. But for a laptop, since I cannot afford a Mac, you might just try either Xubuntu, or if it's really low on power/ram Puppy Linux is the only way to go.

-- Walter