Resolution on VGA monitor [SOLVED]

[beardyjesse]

Hi all,
I've got my Pi hooked up to an old 17" VGA monitor using a HDMI to VGA adapter;
Amazon Link for HDMI-VGA Adapter
It works fine, however the resolution is low - 640x480 by the looks of it - I assume because the Pi cannot auto detect the monitor type and settings through the adapter. When using Raspbian I can force the resolution to be 1024x768 by using the following code in the /boot/config.txt file;

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'hdmi_drive=2
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=16
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
disable_overscan=0')

However the same code on the Arch install doesn't work. In fact after changing the config.txt and rebooting it prevents anything from being displayed - so it's doing something! To get back to a working, but low res system, I SSH in and replace the config.txt with my backup file.

As I don't have the best Arch knowledge it may be something that Arch does differently to the standard Raspbian, but I'm not sure where to start. Thanks for any help/pointers.

[pepedog]

I got no idea with this.
Perhaps you experiment with settings http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt
Maybe add config_hdmi_boost=4

[beardyjesse]

Thanks for your suggestion pepedog, unfortunately there's nothing you can do to help an idiot; I edited my backed up config.txt with the amendments I previously posted ready to try your idea and found it worked upon rebooting without the hdmi_boost code! I can only assume I had a typo somewhere in my original file. Thanks for the suggestion all the same.

[pepedog]

It happens