Refresh Rate Dell Optiplex GX270

[R S Gill]

Hi,

We're looking at migrating our lab to Ubuntu but the glitch detailed below is
holding the migration up.

I installed Hoary Array 4 on a Dell Optiplex GX270 that is using the Intel
Extreme Graphics 2 video card. We have been running aptitude dist-upgrade on a
daily basis.

My problem is that X only runs in 800*600 @ 53hz refresh rate and 640*480 @60hz.

At 800*600 the refresh rate is too low and is a strain on the eyes after even
short amounts of time. At 640*480, some of the windows are too big and cannot be
resized to fit on the screen because the borders are off the screen area.

I know that the monitor and video card are capable of higher resolutions. 

I manually ran xorgconfig to regenerate the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file using the
specs for the monitor provided by Dell with no luck.

The links to the machine specifications and the monitor specifications are:

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/optix_gx270?c=us&l=en&s=dfh&~page=2&~tab=specstab#tabtop
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/P68508/En/specs.htm

Any ideas would be helpful because we might have to look at another distribution
if we cannot get this working within a week.

Gill
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