Change Screen resolution?

[Roy Britten]

On 4/29/05, Roy Britten <roy.britten at gmail.com> wrote:
> Same issue with 5.04 live CD on my Dell optiplex. Looking around the
> forums this seems to be a common issue with the 5.04 release --
> without the HorizSync and VertRefresh values in xorg.conf the system
> apparently falls back to a default config which is usually not ideal
> (for me it was 640x480 -- completely unusable). Manually editing the
> xorg.conf file and adding appropriate HorizSync and VertRefresh values
> to the Monitor section makes it work for me.

Process (from memory):

CTRL-ALT-F2
sudo su -
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
# edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf with your favourite editor, adding lines noted above
# I used
#   HorizSync 30-70
#   VertRefresh 50.0-75.0
/etc/init.d/gdm start