<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Sunday 24 May 2009 6:17:17 am Mark Greenwood wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 06:50:31 Jerry Lapham wrote: > > In Kubuntu 9.04/KDE 4.2.2 how do you get the system to recognize you have > > a 1440x900 monitor? When I opened it for the first time in awhile this > > evening, it came up in 800x600. Icons and apps were previously set up > > for 1440x900 and so were rather unusable. Display showed a maximum size > > of 600x800 and wouldn't detect my monitor. > > > > My production system is still Kubuntu 8.04/KDE 3.5.10 but I'm making > > progress with Mandriva 2009.1/KDE 4.2.2. I'd like to get Kubuntu at > > least that far along. > > Ah yet another person encounters my favourite bug. Nobody believes this bug > exists you know. > > Add the line > > Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" > > under the "Monitor" section of /etx/X11/xorg.conf and see if that works for > you. That did not work. > > Or, if you have a working Mandriva that runs OK on the same hardware, copy > xorg.conf from there. That did work. Thanks. I'm writing this from Kubuntu 9.04/KDE 4.2.2. Seems kind of sad that Kubuntu needs Mandriva to do their work for them. :-( -Jerry ============================================= Jerry Lapham Monroe, OH 45050 rjlapham@gmail.com ============================================= "...San Francisco, where you take a chance on being turned to salt if you look back when you are leaving." - Dick Boland </body></html>