Refresh Rate Dell Optiplex GX270

[R S Gill]

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Already done that with exact values taken from the tech specs of
themonitor that were provided from Dell.

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david wrote:
| On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 18:29 -0500, R S Gill wrote:
|
|>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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|
|
| Try
| dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
| Work your way through the steps, most require OK'ing only, (you'll
| probably need to know how much RAM is available to the video system in
| advance) towards the end of the process you'll get a choice of screen
| resolutions. Pick the highest one you know the screen will do.
|
| Hope this helps.
|
| David
|
|
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