Adjusting screen resolution?

[Paul S]

H.M. Gladney said the following on 05/30/2007 10:20 AM:
> The environment pertinent for the following two questions is (a) Ubuntu 
> 7.04 "Feisty Fawn", (b) a new HP Pavilion a6040n personal computer whose 
> chipset is the* Intel 82945G* Express Chipset Family, and (c) I executed 
> the suggested resolution setting procedure described under "*HOW TO: 
> Configuring Xorg for use with Intel i810 and higher video cards*" 
> described at _http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27029_
> 
> (1) Using the Gnome screen manager, there is a "Set screen resolution" 
> service in the system configuration menu.  I can find no equivalent when 
> I use KDE (which I prefer).  How can one acquire a similar configuration 
> service?

It's krandrtray in kde .. so hit Alt-F2 and enter krandrtray and it will 
start as an icon in your panel.

> 
> (2) Notwithstanding unproblematic execution of the command sequence 
> described in (c) above, the screen resolution remains at 1024 x 768.  
> How can one obtain what the hardware supports, viz., 1680 x 1040 resolution?
> 
> Cheerio, Henry
>  
> H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.  http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney
> 

Just click on krandrtray and you'll see them all.  Or open a terminal 
and enter "xrandr -q".

HTH