[yocto] core-image-x11 screen resolution

[Chris Tapp]

Hi Brian,

On 18 Jul 2014, at 22:57, Wenholz, Brian (GE Healthcare) <Brian.Wenholz at med.ge.com> wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> To do this I use a custom xorg.conf file by creating a bbappend for the xserver-xf86-config recipe in my own layer. Just needs the FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend and PR variables updated. Then you place the custom file in the xserver-xf86-config or files directory. I keep my layer appends in the same relative structure as the full recipe for my own sanity.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Thanks, this is the way I would normally do it myself :-)

I was just wondering if there was a really simple way to set it at build time (like adding video= to the kernel arguments) when I'm evaluating various platforms and my local layers aren't available. For now I can just use xrandr to switch resolution.

> Brian Wenholz 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 4:59 PM
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> Subject: [yocto] core-image-x11 screen resolution
> 
> Is there an easy/quick way to set the screen resolution used when core-image-x11 starts X?
> 
> I.e. something that can be added into local.conf?
> 
> Chris Tapp
> 
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Chris Tapp

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