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I'm currently installing Puppy Linux on an old computer, and everything is working fine, the resolution of the boot selections were looking ok, but the moment Puppy Linux boots the GUI, this happens!!! And I tried resizing from the GRUB terminal but it doesn't work, please help me, thank you!!
Ooh, CRT monitor. And that's an odd resolution that it's suggesting. You could try driving it at 1280x1024 at 60Hz. If that doesn't work, try 800x600 at 60Hz, which is the traditional lowest SVGA resolution (picture may be slightly distorted if it really is a 5:4 monitor). If that doesn't work, try the traditional VGA resolution of 640x480 just to get something going. I'd recommend using X as Wayland has probably not been tested very much on hardware this old. And it almost certainly has no clue how to deal with a widescreen resolution or a resolution wider than its "Recommend mode".
(I was still using a 17" CRT with X at 1280x960 up to about five years ago. I had no issues ever.)
1280x1024 is really not that pdd for an old LCD. And yes,to me that looks like an LCD instead of a CRT. Way too flat and matte for a CRT.