Making Resolution Setting More User-Friendly

[Markus Hitter]

Am 01.01.2010 um 01:13 schrieb Craig Van Degrift:

> I have been troubled by how confusing it can be for new users of
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu to get their old display hardware showing  
> higher
> resolution.  I have attempted to write a WWW page that is designed  
> to help
> these newbies as well as confused old-timers like myself.  Could  
> anyone
> interested in helping with this look at
>
> http://yosemitefoothills.com/UbuntuLucidDisplayNotes.html
>
> and give me feedback.

I have the same problem and solve it by putting something like this  
into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45custom_xrandr-settings ($HOME/.Xsession no  
longer works):

xrandr --newmode "1280x1024 SGI" 134.400 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024  
1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 "1280x1024 SGI"

You can get the required numbers with "PowerStrip", a tool for MS  
Windows. "SGI" is an arbitrary name, "VGA1" (sometimes "VGA") can be  
found with "xrandr --info", IIRC. These new resolutions then show up  
in the standard panel for resolution settings and survive reboots.

A few versions back (before Jaunty Jackalope) Ubuntu used to find  
these resolutions it's self.


HTH,
Markus

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