Ubuntu Screen Res Issues

[Charles Yao]

Hi Mark,

If that is the max output of the videocard i think you could be stuck there.
Im not sure though. The video card of my dell is different so you might need
a different driver.

Charles

On 1/1/06, Mark Menzies <mark.menzies at lumison.net> wrote:
>
> I have my laptop running at 1024x768 and my monitor (when docked) can run
> at 1280x1024.
>
> The graphics on my laptop is :
> Intel 82852/82855GM/GME Graphics controller
>
> But when the laptop is docked, I cannot have a higher res than 1024x768.
> Even if I have to manually change the res every time I dock and undock it I
> will do that, but at the moment, I don`t even have that option.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Ta.
>
> Kind regards
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> Mark Menzies
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> Charles Yao wrote:
>
>
>
> On 12/31/05, Mark Menzies <mark.menzies at lumison.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a laptop running ubuntu which runs great undocked, but when I
> > dock the laptop, it doesn`t detect the new monitor nor the bigger screen
> > res that its capable of.
> >
> > I have the laptop dual booting with XP, and XP detects the new monitor
> > and changes the screen res depending on whether or not I am docked etc.
> > I have to use windows for some of the apps that I need to access but I
> > prefer to run linux as a normal desktop, so any assistance would be
> > great here.
> >
> > The laptop is a dell lattitude 505.
> >
> > ta in advance.
> >
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> Hi Mark,
>
> I had the same problem before with my inspiron 700m. Is the laptop and the
> monitor running the same resolution? I fixed mine with 855crt, but I had to
> run the same resolution between laptop and external monitor. I dont know if
> it will work with your laptop though since I dont know what videocard the
> Latitude 505 is running.
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