Feisty screen resolution problem

Fri May 4 22:10:20 UTC 2007

Sorry Rachel, I can't diagnose where you're at and perhaps (hate to say it)
you should go with a clean install.  Problem is, most likely yu well end up
at the same point of having to reconfigure your xserver-xorg settings (video
card, keyboard, mouse, monitor).  Have you thought of asking for help or
looking for direction on the ubuntuforum.org site?

Try not to spend the entire BEAUTIFUL weekend indoors playing with your
computer :-)

Good luck!

Wolf

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[mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Rachael Agnew
Sent: May 4, 2007 6:03 PM
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
Subject: Re: Feisty screen resolution problem

Wolf: Still having problems, and I think I've confused /etc/X11/xorg because

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a) I get this msg: xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting
possibly-customised configuration file; backup in ....
********** 
I carried on and entered startx and a new authority file was created, then
the nest message is
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b) X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console 
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The first time I tried your fix I got hung up on one screen that wouldn't
move, so I exited and tried again. The second time I realized I needed to
use the esc key (when ok didn't work) and carried on but was aborted with
the same message as in b) above.  

Any ideas? Do I need to reinstall Ubuntu 7.04 to start over fresh?  I
frequently receive the message telling me I'm not authorized to do
something; what should I do about that?
Ciao
Rachael  

On 4/30/07, Wolf <HYPERLINK
"mailto:wolf.pusztay at gmail.com"wolf.pusztay at gmail.com> wrote: 

Hi Rachael;

You're getting close!

You need to boot into 'buntu and hold down the ctrl-alt keys and press
[backspace]

This gets you to a terminal (black screen)

Login as you normally do and then do the following:

1. sudo /etc/init.d gdm stop

2. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

And answer all the questions the best you can, as the defaults are usually
ok, except for selecting intel for video and check the resolution you want
to ensure that 1280x800 is included.

You should be good to go!

When that's finished, enter startx at the system prompt to restart gdm and
see what you have.

Cheers!

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ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Rachael Agnew
Sent: April 30, 2007 10:56 AM
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
Subject: Re: Feisty screen resolution problem

Thanks for replying, Wolf:
I tried auto915Resolution at HYPERLINK
"http://roland-lopez.blogspot.com/2007/03/auto915resolution-ubuntu-resolutio
n-fix.html"
\nhttp://roland-lopez.blogspot.com/2007/03/auto915resolution-ubuntu-resoluti
on-fix.html 
and another page (I forget the address) that gives directions for Xorg.conf
file tweaking.  The video card on my computer is Intel 945. (Screen
resolution for  Windows is 1280 x 800 and that is okay so I would expect
that is what I want in Ubuntu as well.)
As a consequence of all the tweaking around I've been doing, my mouse now
jumps all over the place.  I don't want to reload Feisty because I managed
to establish an Internet connection and I'm not sure that I could do it
again.  (Yes, I'm green.) 
Ciao,
Rachael

Rachael;

Can you tell us what you tried, what video card you are using and what
monitor size/resolution you want/have? 
Cheers,

Wolf

On 4/28/07, Rachael Agnew <HYPERLINK "mailto:rachael.agnew at gmail.com"
\nrachael.agnew at gmail.com > wrote:

Hello -- Need help with adjusting screen resolution. Someone (that would be
Patrick at the Linuxcaffe Ubuntu users meeting about six meetings ago)
helped me adjust it for Edgy, but I forgot what the adjustment was.  Nothing
I've read and tried so far for Feisty is working -- everything remains
squished.  Anyone know what I need to do?  (Patrick, are you out there?) 
Ciao.
Rachael

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