Graphics adapter

[Alex Mandel]

Tim Holmes wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I have a student who is trying to set up Ubuntu on one of our machines
> here so that we can use it with blender and a cad program.
> 
> However we have hit a problem,  we are stuck on 640 x 480 resolution on
> the display card.  We go into the gui and it will not allow us to change
> anything.  The video adapter is an INTEL 82865G graphics controller
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
> 
> TIM
> 
> Timothy A. Holmes
>  
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>  
> Medina Christian Academy
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> 
> 
I had a similar problem a long time ago 
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.linux.ubuntu.user&article=29000

Try to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Changing the default color depth (DefaultDepth - around line 90) to 16 
instead of 24.

Alex