can´t alter display resolution on new dapper install

[Paul S]

Gene Heskett said the following on 05/30/2007 10:21 AM:
> In my case it doesn't, on a kubuntu-6.06 system that is stuck at 1024x768, 
> much less than the card and the monitor have demo'd that they can work at, 
> all I can get out of that command, as the user or sudo'd, is "can't open 
> display."
> 
> The card and monitor can work at 1600x1200 under previous installs and I would 
> like very much to restore that resolution, since that machines main job is 
> running emc2.  A cnc control application that draws a nice backplot of what 
> the machine is going to do, and traces it as it does it when running the 
> gcode program.
> 
> 

You might get more help by posting your xorg.conf and the results of 
"xrandr -q".

regards,