How do I change screen resolution?

[Daniel Pittman]

Earl Violet <ejviolet at yahoo.com> writes:

> I cannot get a higher screen resolution in Kubuntu or Ubuntu than
> 1024x768. I know the video card and monitor support higher resolutions
> because I run much higher using Windows 2K.
>
> I checked the screen resolution in both Kubuntu and Ubuntu GUI but
> 1025x768 is all the higher it shows.

Take a look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what the X server reports when
it is starting up.  You will probably find that something causes it to
reject the larger modes -- and that will point you in the right
direction for fixing the problem.

Regards,
        Daniel
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