Only getting low resolution with new monitor in feisty

[John DeCarlo]

On 10/12/07, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Windows is happily running it at 1280x1024, 60Hz. So I know that I should
> be able to do at least that much with feisty.
>
> All I had to do in Windows was change the desktop properties and click!
> all
> done :-( X -- or at least X in feisty -- doesn't seem to have any concept
> that someone might want to change a monitor after the OS has been
> installed. Anyway, I'm sure I can figure it out with the help I've been
> given here; it's just that really one shouldn't need to ask or know about
> any of this. Maybe gutsy will be better; I do intend to upgrade my wife's
> computer to gutsy maybe a week or so after the early adopters have found
> the main issues associated with upgrading.
>

I have to admit I didn't really understand your original question that well.

But I just bought a new LCD monitor for my Feisty machine, which had already
been running the non-free ATI driver.

All I had to do to tell it about the new monitor was go to Settings ->
Peripherals -> Monitor and Display,  pick Administrator mode.   Then go to
the Hardware tab and tell it about my new monitor.

Then under Size, Orientation & Positioning tab, it let me go up to
1680x1050.

No problem, done.

If Gutsy makes it even easier, great.  Can't imagine it much easier, unless
you don't want to know that a Monitor is a peripheral.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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