RESOLVED====boot.plist

[roadrage]

I have a Dell D600 with Kalyway 10.5.1 installed and running well for a couple months now. I have been looking at what my next build is and today stumbled upon something of interest to me.

 

I came across a line in the HCL stating "modified boot.plist to increase resolution to 1400x1050" for a laptop. I have been running my laptop using default 1024x768 assuming that was all I could do, but tried rebooting and added the boot option

-x "Graphics Mode"="1400x1050x32@65"

and the laptop completed booting and then prompted me for a password and showed I was booting into "Safe Boot" but I entered a pw and it then brought me to a desktop which was in 1400x1050 and all worked. I then wanted to add this as a permanent setting and searched around and tried a recommended way per the wiki to make this permanent and added

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>

into my com.apple.Boot.plist using

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

and saved the file and then rebooted, but this did not work.

 

Is there a recommended way I can add this permanently without having to use "Safe Boot", but still get the much wanted higher resolution ?

[roadrage]

I continued to search and then play around with the additional key I had added and found that the frequency was the cause of the issue. Omiting "@85" from the entry I had added, see example below, and resaving the the com.apple.Boot.plist allowed for the higher resolution to work without entering it manualy or creating errors.

 

Hope this helps someone else when searching for answers.

 

I have a Dell D600 with Kalyway 10.5.1 installed and running well for a couple months now. I have been looking at what my next build is and today stumbled upon something of interest to me.

 

I came across a line in the HCL stating "modified boot.plist to increase resolution to 1400x1050" for a laptop. I have been running my laptop using default 1024x768 assuming that was all I could do, but tried rebooting and added the boot option

-x "Graphics Mode"="1400x1050x32@65"

and the laptop completed booting and then prompted me for a password and showed I was booting into "Safe Boot" but I entered a pw and it then brought me to a desktop which was in 1400x1050 and all worked. I then wanted to add this as a permanent setting and searched around and tried a recommended way per the wiki to make this permanent and added

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>

into my com.apple.Boot.plist using

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

and saved the file and then rebooted, but this did not work.

 

Is there a recommended way I can add this permanently without having to use "Safe Boot", but still get the much wanted higher resolution ?