I wouldn’t know how to recompile it; the detailed instructions given didn’t match the downloaded desktop environment, on the one occasion I got the “live CD” to work, which was, uh, frustrating. The other times it gave me some kind of error about how the disk wasn’t available or some such lie. Anyway, I finally used a DVD-equipped CPU (a workplace discard, I think it was a Gateway) to start up and install. After the second to last reboot, the newly installed system went back to 640 mode on the 1280 capable monitor (which had worked during “live” use and during the installation). The included gizmo to set screen resolution only offered one option — 640. So I restarted it once more, and it started up in, and stayed in, 1280 mode.