8.04 upgrade - login screen resolution is wrong

[Fred Schuelzky]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Fred Schuelzky wrote:
>>   Just finished upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04.  My login screen is
>> screwed up. The resolution is wrong. I've tried to change screens and
>> that won't work.
>> 	Right now I can log in to the KDE system but can't change sessions to
>> Gnome. Because I can't see the sessions icon.
> 
> Is the resolution OK if you login to KDE? Was the monitor switched on when 
> the xserver started? What graphics card is in that machine?
> 
> If the resolution is wrong for your KDE session as well, you could switch 
> to a text console using the shortcut Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login. Then use 
> these commands:
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start
> 
> If you use gdm, replace "/etc/init.d/kdm" with "/etc/init.d/gdm" for the 
> commands above. These commands might repair the problem, but if your 
> graphics card is not really supported, like e.g. some older ATI cards, 
> that will not help.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
Thanks Nils for the reply:
	I got it fixed by editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file all that I did 
was edit the Subsection  "Display" numbers to: Virtual 1024     768.
NoOp fom the Ubuntu list assisted me with this.

Thank you very much for your reply

Fred