can�t alter display resolution on new dapper install

[Earl Violet]

--- Paul S <paulatgm at gmail.com> wrote:

> anthony baldwin said the following on 05/30/2007 07:14 AM:
> > My wife bought a new computer, with xpmedia edition, and asked me
> to 
> > install Linux for her to give it a try.
> > (She´s used windows forever, but has seen my use Linux since we
> married, 
> > and noted how
> > I don´t have any of the viruses, crashes, etc., and wants to give
> it a 
> > shot.)
> > 
> > I partitioned the drive and installed dapper (since that´s what
> I´m 
> > still using, being slow to
> > adopt upgrades until bugs are worked out), and everything went
> lovely, 
> > except,
> > the display is set at 640 x 480.
> > Her graphics card and monitor should allow at least 1024 x 768.
> > I can see these options in the xorg.conf,
> > but don´t seem to be able to modify the value in the systems
> preferences 
> > application,
> > even in administrator mode.
> > 
> > any assistance would be deeply appreciated.
> > 
> > tony
> > 

I ran into this problem with Kubuntu Dapper and Debian Etch.  I asked
on this list and was told to change DefaultDepth from 24 to 16 in
xorg.conf.  This worked for me and I can't see any difference between
24 and 16.

Earl

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