[ubuntu-us-nm] Display problems

[Anthony Ortega]

I will see what I can do but I am a beginner at helping out but I will give
it a good old college try. Does the monitor show the brand of monitor or
does it show generic monitor?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Researcher Taylor <
research at lawlearners.org> wrote:

> Thanks Anthony.  My resolution was fine when I first installed 10.04 LTS.
>
> Additional info:  I have a dual boot machine and it's happening in 12.04
> LTS on the same machine so I'm thinking the problem is with GRUB.
>
> The results of the command you gave command is:
>
> "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)"
>
> And using this command:  "sudo lshw -C video"
>
>  *-display
>       description: VGA compatible controller
>       product: 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller
>       vendor: Intel Corporation
>       physical id: 2
>       bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
>       version: 02
>       width: 64 bits
>       clock: 33MHz
>       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list rom
>       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
>       resources: irq:26 memory:f0400000-f04fffff memory:e0000000-efffffff(
> **prefetchable) ioport:1200(size=8)
>
> On the supported Intel video cards page:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**HardwareSupportComponentsVideo**CardsIntel<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsIntel>
>
> I don't see my specific model.
>
> Using this command:        "xrandr"
>
> I get this:
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
> VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm
> x 0mm
>   1360x768       59.8
>   1024x768       60.0*
>   800x600        60.3     56.2
>   848x480        60.0
>   640x480        59.9     59.9
>
>
> The actual max resolution for my monitor is: 1280 x 1024
>
> Notice it says the max video resolution for the video hardware is 8192 x
> 8192 so I'm thinking that the it has enough RAM to accommodate 1280x1024.
>
> I tried this command:    "xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024"
>
> And this came back:
>
>        xrandr: cannot find mode 1280x1024
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>  Try sudo lspci | grep VGA to find you specific graphics card in your
>> computer, and then you can get the appropriate driver.
>>
>
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